Some French Fricative Consonants as Shown by X-Ray

I T HAs been claimed that unless the exposure time for radiographing the organs of speech during articulation is very short, thus avoiding abnormal prolongation, the results are not trustworthy. This argument is dealt with as concerns vowels in an article which appeared some years ago.' It is the aim of this paper to show some radiographs of French fricative consonants taken with an exposure time of 7/20 of a second, a relatively long exposure, and to examine the argument with regard to fricatives

Linguistics · Nuclear physics · Physics · X-ray · Historical Linguistics and Language Studies · Linguistic Studies and Language Acquisition · Mathematics · Phonetics and Phonology Research · Philosophy