A Competitive, Coupled Oscillator Model of Syllable Structure *Work supported by NIH grant DC-0663 to Haskins Laboratories. Louis Goldstein should also be considered an author of this paper.
| Number | 1307 |
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| Year | 2003 |
| Drawer | 25 |
| Entry Date | 01/10/2008 |
| Authors | Nam, H. & Saltzman, E. |
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| Publication | Proceedings of the 15th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. Barcelona, Spain. August 3-9, 2003. Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, pp. 2253-2256. |
| url | http://www.haskins.yale.edu/Reprints/HL1307.pdf |
| Abstract | Syllable-initial consonant sequences have been shown to differ from syllable-final ones in two ways: they show the c-center effect [3] and they exhibit greater stability in timing [5]. Here we show that both of these differences emerge automatically from a model in which phonetic units (gestures) are modeled as oscillators, and coordination is achieved by coupling. Significantly, the necessary coupling relations are abstract and involve competitive, mutually incompatible specifications. |
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