Although it is agreed that most speech is produced by a human vocal tract, it is less accepted that speech production and speech perception are intricately linked. Many theorists hold that the acoustic output of the vocal tract is dealt with in a purely acoustic manner and that any link that exists would be in modifications of the vocal tract shape to achieve a particular acoustic result. An alternative approach holds that speech consists of gestures, or the coordinated activity of a set of articulators, such as the jaw and the lips, achieving a phonetic goal, such as lip closure. The gestural assumption has allowed an insightful interpretation of many speech production phenomena, and the specific models are the basis for some testable predictions for perceptual theories. Experiments in this proposal would provide results to further substantiate the claim that the two processes are related and to begin validating the articulatory gesture as the link between perception and production. This theoretical outlook has been fruitfully applied to problems in language acquisition, language change, and certain language disabilities. The proposed research should provide an even broader application.

Agency
National Institute of Health (NIH)
Institute
National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD)
Type
Research Project (R01)
Project #
5R01DC002717-06
Application #
6516143
Study Section
Special Emphasis Panel (ZRG1-BBBP-3 (01))
Program Officer
Shekim, Lana O
Project Start
1996-05-01
Project End
2005-06-30
Budget Start
2002-07-01
Budget End
2003-06-30
Support Year
6
Fiscal Year
2002
Total Cost
$532,532
Indirect Cost
Name
Haskins Laboratories, Inc.
Department
Type
DUNS #
060010147
City
New Haven
State
CT
Country
United States
Zip Code
06511
Derrick, Donald; Carignan, Christopher; Chen, Wei-Rong et al. (2018) Three-dimensional printable ultrasound transducer stabilization system. J Acoust Soc Am 144:EL392
Whalen, D H; Chen, Wei-Rong; Tiede, Mark K et al. (2018) Variability of articulator positions and formants across nine English vowels. J Phon 68:1-14
Krivokapi?, Jelena; Tiede, Mark K; Tyrone, Martha E (2017) A Kinematic Study of Prosodic Structure in Articulatory and Manual Gestures: Results from a Novel Method of Data Collection. Lab Phonol 8:
Abramson, Arthur S; Whalen, D H (2017) Voice Onset Time (VOT) at 50: Theoretical and practical issues in measuring voicing distinctions. J Phon 63:75-86
Shadle, Christine H; Nam, Hosung; Whalen, D H (2016) Comparing measurement errors for formants in synthetic and natural vowels. J Acoust Soc Am 139:713-27
Dawson, Katherine M; Tiede, Mark K; Whalen, D H (2016) Methods for quantifying tongue shape and complexity using ultrasound imaging. Clin Linguist Phon 30:328-44
Whalen, D H (2016) Direct Perceptions of Carol Fowler's Theoretical Perspective. Ecol Psychol 28:183-187
Bicevskis, Katie; Derrick, Donald; Gick, Bryan (2016) Visual-tactile integration in speech perception: Evidence for modality neutral speech primitives. J Acoust Soc Am 140:3531
Jackson, Eric S; Tiede, Mark; Riley, Michael A et al. (2016) Recurrence Quantification Analysis of Sentence-Level Speech Kinematics. J Speech Lang Hear Res 59:1315-1326
Bicevskis, Katie; de Vries, Jonathan; Green, Laurie et al. (2016) EFFECTS OF MOUTHING AND INTERLOCUTOR PRESENCE ON MOVEMENTS OF VISIBLE VS. NON-VISIBLE ARTICULATORS. Can Acoust 44:17-24

Showing the most recent 10 out of 72 publications