Stammering and stuttering : their nature and treatment / by James Hunt.

  • James Hunt
Date:
1865
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    nares, so that the oral canal may he separated from the nasal tube, speech acquires a nasal timbre, and the articulation of many consonants is variously affected. B and p then assume the sound of an indistinct m; d and t sound somewhat like n; and g and h like ng. The action of the velum during speech has been described by Sir Charles Bell.* The Chief Causes of Stammering.—The variety of defects which constitute stammering result either from actual defective organisation or from functional disorder. Among organic defects may be enumer- ated : hare-lip, cleft-palate, abnormal length and thickness of the uvula, inflammation and enlarge- ment of the tonsils, abnormal size and tumours of the tongue, tumours in the buccal cavity, want or defective position of the teeth, etc. Dr. Ashburner mentions a very curious case of a boy who, though not deaf, could not speak. This he attributed to the smallness of the jaws, which taking at length a sudden start in growth by which the * “ In a person whom I had the pain of attending long after the bones of the face were lost, and in whom I could look down behind the palate, I saw the operation of the velv/m palati. During speech it was in constant motion; and when the person pronounced the explosive letters, the velum rose convex, so as to interrupt the ascent of breath in that direction; and as the lips parted, or the tongue separated from the teeth or palate, the velum recoiled forcibly.”—Philosophical Transactions, 1832.
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