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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2008 Apr 3.
Published in final edited form as: J Phon. 2007;35(3):271–300. doi: 10.1016/j.wocn.2006.11.002

Table 7.

Mean difference (MD) in mm between the tongue shapes from the front and back harmony type words, and mean area (AREA) between the curves from the same and different harmonic types

Block Vowel MD = DFront−DBack
 AREA
Line-1 Line-2 Line-3 Line-4 Line-5 Total Same Different
1 [i:] 1.4 2.34 2.79 2.35 1.24 2.03 734.3 1022.8
[i] 1.34 1.97 2.19 2.12 1.03 1.73 700.0 994.3
[e:] .69 .87 .74 .36 −.09 .51 686.0 872.4
2 [i:] 1.92 2.68 3.05 2.94 2.07 2.53 684.1 1209.1
[i] 1.48 2.27 2.92 2.7 1.69 2.21 799.8 1245.6
[e:] 1.31 1.54 1.5 1.34 .97 1.33 764.7 1058.8