Speech Production and Speech Modelling

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Physiological Framework for the Speech Production Process

   1. Organization of the Articulatory System: Peripheral Mechanisms and Central Coordination

      • Michèle Gentil, Chu Pitié-Salpêtrière

      Pages 1-22

   2. Respiratory Activity in Speech

      • John J. Ohala

      Pages 23-53

   3. Acquisition of Speech Production: The Achievement of Segmental Independence

      • Peter F. MacNeilage, Barbara L. Davis

      Pages 55-68

3. Coarticulation and Other Connected Speech Processes

   1. Segmental Reduction in Connected Speech in German: Phonological Facts and Phonetic Explanations

      • K. J. Kohler

      Pages 69-92

   2. V-C-V Lingual Coarticulation and Its Spatiotemporal Domain

      • E. Farnetani

      Pages 93-130

4. Models of Articulatory-Acoustic Relationships

   1. Compensatory Articulation During Speech: Evidence from the Analysis and Synthesis of Vocal-Tract Shapes Using an Articulatory Model

      • Shinji Maeda

      Pages 131-149

   2. Articulatory Synthesis

      • Celia Scully

      Pages 151-186

   3. Articulatory-Acoustic Relationships in Fricative Consonants

      • Christine H. Shadle

      Pages 187-209

   4. Articuiltory-Acoustic-Phonetic Relations and Modeling, Regions and Modes

      • R. Carré, M. Mrayati

      Pages 211-240

   5. Evidence for Nonlinear Sound Production Mechanisms in the Vocal Tract

      • H. M. Teager, S. M. Teager

      Pages 241-261

5. Theories and Models of Articulatory Organization and Timing

   1. Testing Theories of Speech Production: Implications of Some Detailed Analyses of Variable Articulatory Data

      • J. S. Perkell

      Pages 263-288

   2. Speech as Audible Gestures

      • Anders Löfqvist

      Pages 289-322

   3. Articulatory Perspectives of Speech Organization

      • Osamu Fujimura

      Pages 323-342

   4. Speech Motor Timing

      • Eric Keller

      Pages 343-364

   5. The Acoustic and Physiologic Characteristics of Neurologically Impaired Speech Movements

      • R. D. Kent

      Pages 365-401

   6. Explaining Phonetic Variation: A Sketch of the H&H Theory

      • B. Lindblom

      Pages 403-439

6. Back Matter

   Pages 441-448

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Speech sound production is one of the most complex human activities: it is also one of the least well understood. This is perhaps not altogether surprising as many of the complex neurological and physiological processes involved in the generation and execution of a speech utterance remain relatively inaccessible to direct investigation, and must be inferred from careful scrutiny of the output of the system -from details of the movements of the speech organs themselves and the acoustic consequences of such movements. Such investigation of the speech output have received considerable impetus during the last decade from major technological advancements in computer science and biological transducing, making it possible now to obtain large quantities of quantative data on many aspects of speech articulation and acoustics relatively easily. Keeping pace with these advancements in laboratory techniques have been developments in theoretical modelling of the speech production process. There are now a wide variety of different models available, reflecting the different disciplines involved -linguistics, speech science and technology, engineering and acoustics. The time seems ripe to attempt a synthesis of these different models and theories and thus provide a common forum for discussion of the complex problem of speech production. Such an activity would seem particularly timely also for those colleagues in speech technology seeking better, more accurate phonetic models as components in their speech synthesis and automatic speech recognition systems.

• acoustics
• cognition
• complex
• complex problem
• computer
• computer science
• development
• linguistics
• organizations
• phonology
• production
• science
• speech recognition
• speech synthesis
• technology

` This volume is a welcome addition and has a valuable contribution to make, and this is a volume which should find a place in the (sufficiently well-funded) laboratory library. '
Journal of Phonetics

• Department of Linguistic Science, University of Reading, Reading, UK

  William J. Hardcastle

• C.N.R.S., Aix-en-Provence, France

  Alain Marchal

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