Dynamic Modeling of Phonetic Structure.
| Number | 546 |
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| Year | 1985 |
| Drawer | 9 |
| Entry Date | 11/18/1999 |
| Authors | Browman, C. P. & Goldstein, L. M. |
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| Publication | Phonetic Linguistics, 35-53. |
| url | http://www.haskins.yale.edu/Reprints/HL0546.pdf |
| Abstract | A dynamic approach to phonetics allows utterances to be represented as compact, linguistically relevant structures with inherent temporal & spatial properties. This conception of phonetic structure is exemplified & tested in a preliminary study involving a single speaker. Vertical movement of the lower lip during utterance of the nonsense form [bVb(schwa)bVb] was recorded, where the vowels were either [i] or [a] & stress was either initial or final. The measured articulatory trajectories were compared to the sinusoidal curves that would be generated by an undamped mass-spring dynamic system. The f parameter was modulated every half-cycle according to 1 of 2 organizational hypotheses, which both seemed to model the trajectories closely. |
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