Tiers in articulatory phonology, with some implications for casual speech.
| Number | 752 |
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| Year | 1991 |
| Drawer | 14 |
| Entry Date | 11/08/1999 |
| Authors | Browman, C. P., & Goldstein, L. |
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| Publication | In J. Kingston and M. E. Beckman (eds), Papers in Laboratory Phonology I: Between the Grammar and the Physics of Speech. Cambridge, U. K.: Cambridge University Press. (pp.341-376). |
| url | http://www.haskins.yale.edu/Reprints/HL0752.pdf |
| Abstract | [Introduction] We have recently begun a research program with the goal of providing explicit, formal representations of articulatory organization appropriate for use a phonological representations (Browman and Goldstein 1986; Goldstein and Browman 1986). The basic assumption underlying this research program is that much phonological organization arises from constraints imposed by physical systems. This is of course a common assumption with respect to the elements-features-used in phonological description; it is not such a common assumption, at least in recent years, with respect to the organization of phonological structures. In our view, phonological structure is an interaction of acoustic, articulatory, and other (e.g. psychological and/or purely linguistic) organizations. We are focusing on articulatory organization because we believe that the inherently multidimensional nature of articulation can explain a number of phonological phenomena, particularly those that involve overlapping articulatory gestures. Thus, we represent linguistic structures in terms of coordinated articulatory movements, called gestures, that are themselves organized into a gestural score that resembles an autosegmental representation. |
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