Taste development: differential growth rates of tongue regions in humans

Temple, Elizabeth C.; Hutchinson, Ian; Laing, David G.; Jinks, Anthony L

doi:10.1016/s0165-3806(02)00307-3

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“…6 It is important to point out that our findings on /s/ apply only to the activity of the tongue in the midsagittal plane. Temple, Hutchinson, Laing, & Jinks (2002) claimed that the period between 10 and 12 years of age is characterized by a plateau in the growth of the vocal tract, after the period of rapid growth between 7 and 10 years old. Because /s/ is characterized by a pronounced groove along the tongue midline, reflected in electropalatography data (e.g., Hardcastle, Gibbon, & Jones, 1991), during the syllable /si/, the tongue sides stay in contact with the hard palate, whereas during the syllable /sa/, there is an abrupt change in the amount of lateral tongue-palate contact between the consonant and the vowel as the sides of the tongue lower for /a/.…”

Section: Cross-group Comparison Of Variabilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Spatial and Temporal Lingual Coarticulation and Motor Control in Preadolescents

Zharkova

Hewlett

Hardcastle

et al. 2014

J Speech Lang Hear Res

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PURPOSE In this study, the authors compared coarticulation and lingual kinematics in preadolescents and adults in order to establish whether preadolescents had a greater degree of random variability in tongue posture and whether their patterns of lingual coarticulation differed from those of adults. METHOD High-speed ultrasound tongue contour data synchronized with the acoustic signal were recorded from 15 children (ages 10-12 years) and 15 adults. Tongue shape contours were analyzed at 9 normalized time points during the fricative phase of schwa-fricative-/a/ and schwa-fricative-/i/ sequences with the consonants /s/ and /ʃ/. RESULTS There was no significant age-related difference in random variability. Where a significant vowel effect occurred, the amount of coarticulation was similar in the 2 groups. However, the onset of the coarticulatory effect on preadolescent /ʃ/ was significantly later than on preadolescent /s/, and also later than on adult /s/ and /ʃ/. CONCLUSIONS Preadolescents have adult-like precision of tongue control and adult-like anticipatory lingual coarticulation with respect to spatial characteristics of tongue posture. However, there remains some immaturity in the motor programming of certain complex tongue movements.

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Section: Cross-group Comparison Of Variabilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Spatial and Temporal Lingual Coarticulation and Motor Control in Preadolescents

Zharkova

Hewlett

Hardcastle

et al. 2014

J Speech Lang Hear Res

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“…In children, familiarity was proven to increase preference for various foods (Birch & Marlin, 1982): in particular, preference for foods such as vegetables, not attractive alone (weak caloric content, strong flavour, fibrous texture), increases with exposures (Wardle et al, 2003). Moreover, the sensory system matures during childhood and the teens (Cowart, 1981), as anatomical evidence is beginning to show (Temple, Hutchinson, Laing, & Jinks, 2002). Sweet taste is innately liked and remains liked throughout life but with marked preference in children compared to adults; salty taste is neutral in infants but a preference for salty foods develops during the first months of life (Cowart, 1981).…”

Section: Modelling Food Preferencesmentioning

confidence: 99%

A prospective study of food preferences in childhood

Nicklaus

Boggio

Chabanet

et al. 2004

Food Quality and Preference

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“…While commonly assumed to parallel the sulcus terminalis at the level of the circumvallate papillae, it is conceivable that, in the adult, the border of the third pharyngeal arch derivative is more anterior. During postnatal development into adulthood, the middle sector of the tongue becomes 'stretched' and lingual growth occurs mostly in the posterior region [10].…”

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