Real-time MRI and synchronised audio were used to examine intrinsic velum height in German vowels. Two adult female subjects produced five repetitions of a set of sentences containing, among other target material, the point vowels /i: a: u:/ in the same phonologically non-nasalised context. Even in this small sample, the subjects exhibit variation in velum height across vowel categories, and show considerable interindividual variation in velum height during the production of the same vowel category. Collection of further data from normal subjects will be used to create a robust baseline for the assessment of abnormal velum activity.
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