Synchronization complicates the use of ultrasound in phonetics research, particularly with methods that incorporate video data of external reference points (e.g., [3, 4]). The challenge of a third stream is compounded in longer spans of data at higher than NTSC standard frame rates. As part of work toward developing high-speed ultrasound techniques for long spans of running speech, this paper p...

In this paper, we explore the relationship between phonetics and phonology, in an attempt to broaden the search for possible sources of complexity that arise in sound patterns and sound systems. We propose that complexity may be better understood if one considers phonetics and phonology together in their multi-faceted interaction. Our goal here is to present an overview of the relevant issues i...

Danish phonetics and Norwegian phonetics are not all that different. This fact is exploited in an ongoing project establishing a phonetic transcription algorithm for (East-) Norwegian. Using methods known from machine learning we exploit a publicly available phonetic database for Danish (based on the Danish PAROLE corpus) arriving at a cost-competitive phonetic database for Norwegian. While the...

It is generally assumed that children learn to pronounce speech sounds by imitation from adult models. This requires that a child creates some form of representation for a speech sound in a single modality, which he uses for both perception and production. It is usually imagined that this underlying representation is auditory/acoustic, but arguments can also be made for motor/gestural alternati...