{"id":918,"date":"2021-06-17T22:45:52","date_gmt":"2021-06-18T05:45:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/isrl\/?page_id=918"},"modified":"2022-06-11T17:11:09","modified_gmt":"2022-06-12T00:11:09","slug":"velum","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/isrl\/velum\/","title":{"rendered":"Velum Posture"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover\" style=\"min-height:145px;aspect-ratio:unset;\"><span aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-cover__background has-background-dim\"><\/span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"577\" height=\"541\" class=\"wp-block-cover__image-background wp-image-907\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/isrl\/files\/2021\/06\/Screenshot-2021-06-07-140958.png\" data-object-fit=\"cover\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/isrl\/files\/2021\/06\/Screenshot-2021-06-07-140958.png 577w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/isrl\/files\/2021\/06\/Screenshot-2021-06-07-140958-300x281.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 577px) 100vw, 577px\" \/><div class=\"wp-block-cover__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-cover-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-white-color has-text-color has-large-font-size\"><strong>Velum<\/strong> <strong>Posture<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"has-black-color has-text-color wp-block-heading\"><b><strong>Project Overview&nbsp;<\/strong><\/b><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The velum (a term sometimes used interchangeably with \u201csoft palate\u201d) is the soft structure that separates the nasal and oral cavities. When we speak, the velum is usually raised, closing the velopharyngeal port and preventing air from escaping through the nose. We lower the velum to produce nasal sounds. Our team is looking at the behaviour of the velum in speech to see if its position is finely tuned and whether the raised velum constitutes a stable posture of speech. Current research projects are looking at velum speed, degree of velum opening, and coarticulatory movement in different phonemic contexts, particularly in English and French.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"has-black-color has-text-color wp-block-heading\"><b><strong>Selected Publications \/ Conferences<\/strong><\/b><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Papers<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>de Boer, G., Islam, J., Purnomo, C., Wu, L., &amp; Gick, B. (submitted). Revisiting the nasal continuum hypothesis: A study of French nasals in continuous speech. The Journal of Phonetics. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Murray, J.A., Wang, M., Islam, J., de Boer, G., &amp; Gick, B.  The effect of place of articulation on the extent of velopharyngeal opening in Quebecois French nasal consonants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Purnomo, C.Y., Wu, L.X., Islam, J., de Boer, G., &amp; Gick, B. The contextual effects of nasal vowels on velopharyngeal opening in Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois French. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Presentations<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Murray, J.A., Wang, M., Islam, J., de Boer, G., &amp; Gick, B.  The effect of place of articulation on the extent of velopharyngeal opening in Quebecois French nasal consonants. Presented at Acoustics Week in Canada (online). 2021. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Purnomo, C.Y., Wu, L.X., Islam, J., de Boer, G., &amp; Gick, B. The contextual effects of nasal vowels on velopharyngeal opening in Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois French.  Presented at Acoustics Week in Canada (online). 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Islam, J., de Boer, G., Lo, C., Smith, H., Tse, E., &amp; Gick, B. (2020). X-ray analysis of velum movement in continuous speech. <em>The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 148<\/em>(4), 2580-2580.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>*Subject to change<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Project Overview&nbsp; The velum (a term sometimes used interchangeably with \u201csoft palate\u201d) is the soft structure that separates the nasal and oral cavities. When we speak, the velum is usually raised, closing the velopharyngeal port and preventing air from escaping through the nose. We lower the velum to produce nasal sounds. Our team is looking &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/isrl\/velum\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Velum Posture&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77202,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-full-width.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-918","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/isrl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/isrl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/isrl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/isrl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77202"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/isrl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=918"}],"version-history":[{"count":27,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/isrl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2115,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/isrl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/918\/revisions\/2115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/isrl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}