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The National (Scotland)
The National (Scotland)
National
Gregor Young

Ultrasound helps to shed light on Gaelic language

The research was led by a team from Lancaster University

A RESEARCH team has unveiled a new series of ultrasound recordings of people speaking Gaelic, shedding light on the different ways in which people use their tongues during speech.

Led by Lancaster University, the team made video recording of people’s tongues while they spoke both Gaelic and Western Isles English in order to investigate which movements are used to create sounds for specific consonants.

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