This paper reviews the current state of several formal models of speech motor control, with
particular focus on the low-level control of the speech articulators. Further development of …

Purpose While the speech motor system is sensitive to feedback perturbations, sensory
feedback does not seem to be critical to speech motor production. How the speech motor …

The field of articulatory phonetics is concerned primarily with the question of how speech is
realized through movements of body structures. While articulatory phoneticians have often …

Purpose: The human voice changes with the progression of neurological disease and the
onset of diseases that affect articulators, often decreasing the effectiveness of …

Since the development of Optimality Theory (OT; Prince & Smolensky (2004)) and Harmonic
Grammar (HG; Legendre et al.(1990)) in the 1990's, phonological theory has focused on the …

North American English (NAE) flaps/taps and rhotic vowels have been shown to exhibit
extreme variability that can be categorized into subphonemic variants. This variability …

Characterizing speech variation has been very important in speech production research
because doing so allows researchers to connect motor control to phonological behavior …

In Equatorial Guinea, the only sub-Saharan African nation in which Spanish is widely
spoken, prevocalic/d/frequently receives a short occlusive articulation that approximates [ɾ] …

Duality of patterning, which refers to the fact that in languages a limited number of
meaningless units combine to create an unlimited number of meaningful units, is considered …

Syllable-final nasals/n/and/ŋ/in Taiwan Mandarin have been reported to be undergoing
merging. Perceptual studies have reported that the alleged merging is context-sensitive and …