An overview of the basic ideas of articulatory phonology is presented, along with selected
examples of phonological patterning for which the approach seems to provide a particularly …

The species-specific organizational property of speech is a continual mouth open-close
alternation, the two phases of which are subject to continual articulatory modulation. The …

This book evaluates the involvement of working memory in five central aspects of language
processing: vocabulary acquisition, speech production, reading development, skilled …

Acoustic analysis is attractive for the study of speech for several reasons, but one of the most
important is that the acoustic signal bridges the acts of speech production and speech …

We have argued that dynamically defined articulatory gestures are the appropriate units to
serve as the atoms of phonological representation. Gestures are a natural unit, not only …

This study constitutes a large-scale comparative analysis of acoustic cues for classification
of place of articulation in fricatives. To date, no single metric has been found to classify …

In this chapter, we present a model of the development of spoken word recognition, the
processes involved in matching speech input to lexical patterns stored in memory. Our …

Classic non-native speech perception findings suggested that adults have difficulty
discriminating segmental distinctions that are not employed contrastively in their own …

Progressing gradually from babbling to meaningful sentences is something most babies do
naturally. But why do they? John L. Locke's answer constitutes a fascinating journey along …

A short-term longitudinal study was carried out on a group of 67 preschool children. At three
points in time over a 12-month period, the children were given tests measuring their syllable …