Electromagnetic articulograph (EMA) systems are useful to study the motor control of speech articulators and also to construct models of the speech production process. In the EMA system, the position of the receiver coil is predicted on the basis of a field function representing a spatial pattern of the magnetic field in relation to the relative position between the transmitter and receiver coi...

objectives: one of the most effective methods to describe speech disorders is the measurement of speech intelligibility. the speech intelligibility indicates the extent of acoustic signals that correctly speaker produces and hearer receives. the purpose of this study was to investigate the speech intelligibility in the persian children with down syndrome, age range was 3 to 5 years, who had spo...

Perception and Production of Syllable-Initial English [r] and [1] by English and Japanese Speakers by Elzbieta B. Slawinski The Psychology Department, The University of Calgary Introduction. V arious studies have investigated a contribution of multiple acoustic cues to the perceptual distinction of [r-1] phonetic contrast in English (e.g., Dalston, 1975; Underbakke and Polka, 1988). The results...

INTRODUCTION Understanding speech production requires a synthesis of perspectives found in physiology, motor control, cognitive science, and linguistics. Here we focus on presenting work in the areas of motor control, dynamical systems and neural networks, and linguistics which we feel is critical in understanding functional architecture and characteristics of the speech production system. Cent...