Influencia de los aparatos dentales ortodónticos en la producción y percepción del habla: estudio de cinco casos

PURPOSE: to observe the capacity to articulate speech in five Venezuelan individuals who use orthodontic dental apparatus and to verify the influence of the apparatus on the perception of speech from their interlocutors. METHODS: the corpus of study consists of two recordings of the lecture of a Minimal Pairs Test done by five speakers before and after beginning the treatment with the apparatus. These recordings were submitted to twenty listeners who were asked to answer what they have perceived. Each one of the listeners checked the option that they believed to have perceived. RESULTS: data a...