The data collection went smoothly with no obstructions from the participants health, speech or from the equipment

that may have affected the results. There was a slight group variability seen when looking at the amount of pressure that the participants began with; for example, the two participants who are not Caucasian, but African American and Hispanic, started with lower pressures. This could be due to differences in speech structures between races that are used during the production of plosives. As we talked about in class, plosives require airflow to be completely stopped which in this case requires the use of ones lips. Too much air flow could mean a persons orbicularis oris muscle, the chief muscle that seals the lips to create a complete restriction of air flow needed for these plosives, is not strong enough. Individual variability could have occurred if, hypothetically, one or more participant had been sick. It could have changed the plosive sounds to become hypernasal sounds where too much air would be escaping through the nose when it shouldnt be at all during such sound productions. This lab relates to class lecture because it required the participants to use some of the key facial muscles (eg. orbicularis oris) and articulators (eg. lips) discussed. The clinical relevance of this experiment is that it could be used to determine if someone has problems with their air pressure during certain speech sounds. It would then be able to aid someone like an SLP to go further than this procedure and determine why they would be having an issue with producing too much or too little air pressure/air flow. Ultimately, to us our results mean that each individual overall has a different amount of air pressure they put on their speech sounds- in this case specifically /p/ and /b/. They also mean that without further experimentation we cannot know for sure why the differences exist.