
The ability to observe the movements of articulators has been of great importance to the study of phonetics in order to understand the way sounds are produced.


Other methods have been used to study articulation and ingestion with tradeoffs in the kind and amount of data available. Because the current induced is inversely proportional to the cube of the distance, a computer is able to analyse the current produced and determine the sensor coil's location in space.ĮMA is used in linguistics and speech pathology to study articulation and in medicine to study oropharyngeal dysphagia. Induction coils around the head produce an electromagnetic field that creates, or induces, a current in the sensors in the mouth. EMA uses sensor coils placed on the tongue and other parts of the mouth to measure their position and movement over time during speech and swallowing.

Transducer (sensor) coils are typically placed on the tongue and lips.Įlectromagnetic articulography (EMA) is a method of measuring the position of parts of the mouth.
