Towards an articulatory phonology

Articulatory phonology: an overview.

An overview of the basic ideas of articulatory phonology is presented, along with selected examples of phonological patterning for which the approach seems to provide a particularly insightful account. In articulatory phonology, the basic units of phonological contrast are gestures, which are also abstract characterizations of articulatory events, each with an intrinsic time or duration. Uttera...

Towards a Computational Articulatory Model of Spanish Phonology

Many aspects of Spanish phonology remain poorly described within feature-based frameworks, in part because it is not well understood to what extent phonological features are grounded in the phonetic domain. In this paper, we introduce a computational model of Spanish phonology based on articulatory primitives (Browman & Goldstein 1992) that is currently being developed as an extension of the Ta...

Articulatory Phonology: A phonology for public language use

Tonal Alignment in Mandarin Chinese: An Articulatory Phonology Account

An Articulatory Phonology Account of Preferred Consonant-Vowel Combinations.

Certain consonant/vowel combinations (labial/central, coronal/front, velar/back) are more frequent in babbling as well as, to a lesser extent, in adult language, than chance would dictate. The "Frame then Content" (F/C) hypothesis (Davis & MacNeilage, 1994) attributes this pattern to biomechanical vocal-tract biases that change as infants mature. Articulatory Phonology (AP; Browman and Goldstei...