The A-map model: Articulatory reliability in child-specific phonology

Gestures , Features and Segments in Early Child Speech *

Alphabetic orthographies represent speech at the level ofthe phoneme. Yet the definition and functional status of the phonemic segment are widely viewed as problematic. Studies of child phonology have shown that the initial domain of a child's articulatory organization is the word rather than the segment, and have attributed a child's errors to failure to organize the features of a target word....

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...

Articulating What Infants Attune to in Native Speech

To become language users, infants must embrace the integrality of speech perception and production. That they do so, and quite rapidly, is implied by the native-language attunement they achieve in each domain by 6-12 months. Yet research has most often addressed one or the other domain, rarely how they interrelate. Moreover, mainstream assumptions that perception relies on acoustic patterns whe...

Articulatory Phonology: A phonology for public language use

Articulatory Phonology, Task Dynamics and Computational Adequacy

This paper discusses articulatory phonology and task dynamics as potentially computationally adequate models which, together, might characterise speech production. The idea is introduced that, particularly at the task dynamic level, the object oriented computational paradigm is appropriate — this is a novel approach in speech production modelling. The paper concludes that articulatory phonology...