Why is breathing relevant in linguistics? In this review, we approach this question from
different perspectives. The most popular view is that breathing adapts to speech because …

The most salient acoustic features in speech are the modulations in its intensity, captured by
the amplitude envelope. Perceptually, the envelope is necessary for speech …

" The first description of voice quality production in 40 years, this book provides a new
framework for its study: The Laryngeal Articulator Model. Informed by instrumental …

Effective treatment for children with residual speech errors (RSEs) requires in-depth
knowledge of articulatory phonetics, but this level of detail may not be provided as part of …

The aim of this chapter is to outline a theory of the voice that relates specific vocal fold
articulations to acoustic parameters that are perceptible to listeners. The “voice” here is …

This book provides a unique, up-to-date survey of individual Uralic languages and sub-
grou**s from Finnish to Selkup. Spoken by more than 25 million native speakers, the …

Speech enhancement is regarded as the key to the quality of digital communication and is
gaining increasing attention in the research field of audio processing. In this paper, we …

Intelligibility is the ultimate goal of human communication. However, measuring it objectively
remained elusive until the 1940s when physicist Harvey Fletcher pioneered a …

Abstract Language is not a purely cultural phenomenon somehow isolated from its wider
environment, and we may only understand its origins and evolution by seriously considering …

The aim of this work is to investigate the impact of crossmodal self-supervised pre-training
for speech reconstruction (video-to-audio) by leveraging the natural co-occurrence of audio …