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My Vocal Tract
MRI midsagittal sections
Each image was acquired by a 21-second FLASH sequence on a 3-Tesla Siemens Trio scanner. Click for high-resolution.
Resting
Here I am in a resting position, breathing through my nose, tongue against the palate, velum lowered. That dent in my ample neck-fat is from the "bird-cage" contraption that was stabilizing my head.
[a]
Producing the low, back, unrounded vowel in "father", holding it steady for the 21 seconds of image acquisition.
[i]
Producing the high, front, unrounded vowel in "free".
[u]
Producing the high, back, rounded vowel in "foo".
[o]
Producing the mid-high, back, rounded vowel in "low", as a steady-state monophthong (no off-glide).
Syllabic [r] (rhoticized schwa)
Producing the syllabic [r] in "fur". Note lip-rounding, and bunched tongue (not retroflex).
