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The use of EPG during the pandemics and beyond

Research into speech is complex because speech is uniquely human, and whenever human subjects are involved, there are specific restrictions on experimental designs and manipulation of variables. During the COVID-19 pandemic human interaction and communication became heavily regulated, so inherent complexities of speech research became increasingly complicated because humans are both the experimenters and the source of data. This is especially evident in cases where instrumental kinematic techniques such as EPG are needed, where data collection and initial analyses are mostly lab-based and experimenter(s) and participant(s) are relatively close together and engaged in spoken communication. Studies have shown that the main route of transmission of the virus is through contact and respiratory droplets (Jin et al. 2020 ; Asadi et al 2020), making the lab-based speech recording environments especially vulnerable. The challenges which COVID-19 pandemic imposes on EPG research are twofold – data collection challenges and ethical challenges. The presentation discusses these challenges and provides measures to make EPG research as successful as possible during the pandemic.

electropalatograpgy (EPG) ; COVID-19 ; pandemic ; instrumental kinematic techniques ; honetics

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