Is coarticulation in speech kinematics centrally planned?

Number 1025
Year 1996
Drawer 19
Entry Date 06/30/1998
Authors Ostry, David J., Gribble, Paul L., and Gracco, Vincent L.
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Publication 1st ESCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Speech Production Modeling - 4th Speech Prudction Seminar.
url http://www.haskins.yale.edu/Reprints/HL1025.pdf
Abstract Coarticulation in speech production is a phenomenon in which the articulator movements for a given speech sound vary systematically with the surrounding sounds and their associate movements. Although these variations may appear to be centrally planned, without explicit models of the speech articulators, the kinematic patterns which are attributable to central control cannot be distinguished from those which arise due to dynamics and are not represented in the underlying control signals. In the present paper, we address the origins of coarticulation by comparing the results of empirical and modeling studies of jaw motion in speech.
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