Chinese X-ray film.

Material is selected to show the various ways that tongue and lips are used in order to contrast the principal syllable types of Peking Chinese. X-ray techniques show the articulatory process and acoustic output of native speakers; prepared scripts, consisting mainly of short, meaningful utterances, illustrate selected phonetic features. Speakers were chosen both for linguistic suitability and lack of physical characteristics that might interfere with X-ray quality. From the X-Ray Film series

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  1. 16mm Filmography (legacy record) — title, year, creator, format, sound, genre, description, catalog record, video
  2. Internet Archive · record ↗ — title, year, creator, format, genre, description, video