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3. With tlie majority of speakers the hard palate is either hardly 

 louched or not toadied at all by the tongue in pronouncing oo, 

 o, or o . Consequently the 

 artificial palate cannot be of 

 much use here. Yet 1 iiad 

 the words "P9p" and "hob" 

 pronounced by I wo trial per- 

 sons with whom a rather 

 hxrge part of the palate was 

 touched. The lesults can he 

 found ill fig. 6. The difference 

 between the. two sounds is 

 clear wiih both persons: the 

 surface touched foi' o beiuf; 

 smaller than for o , while it 

 is a wellknown fad liiat for 

 alhepalateis not touched atall. 



4. Filially the niovemenl 

 of the larynx was registered. 

 It can be easily felt that the 

 larynx assumes a somewhat 

 different position in the two 

 cases, viz. it is advanced 

 more for o . However, 1 did 

 not always succeed in record- 

 ing this difference. I tried to 

 do so with Zwaakdemakek's 

 method ').Thecurvesobtained, 

 however, were too unlike in 

 appearance hut that definite 

 conclusions could be drawn. 

 Still it appeared from these 

 curves that the larynx was 

 retracted for o (as for a and 

 oo), while it was advanced 

 for o as for oe, though by 

 no means to such a degree. 

 Fig. 7 shows part of a curve 

 in which the difference be- 

 tween o and o can be seen. Fig. 4. 



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b Leerboek der Physiologie 11, p. 86. 



