The following contribution addresses several issues concerning speech degrees of freedom
in French oral vowels, stop, and fricative consonants based on an analysis of tongue and lip …

Pre-pubertal boys and girls speak with acoustically different voices despite the absence of a
clear anatomical dimorphism in the vocal apparatus, suggesting that a strong component of …

Our current understanding of how emotions are expressed in speech is still very limited. Part
of the difficulty has been the lack of understanding of the underlying mechanisms. Here we …

It is undoubtedly the case that what, purely for the sake of convenience, we will refer to as
the tense-lax opposition has been the most debated feature of the German vowel system …

A hybrid PARAFAC and principal-component model of tongue configuration in vowel
production is presented, using a corpus of German vowels in multiple consonant contexts …

This paper aims to shed light on the textbook description of ejective production through an
analysis of the articulatory measures intraoral pressure and larynx height in a data set of …

This work investigates laryngeal and supralaryngeal correlates of the voicing contrast in
alveolar obstruent production in German. It further studies laryngealoral co-ordination …

Economy of effort, a popular notion in contemporary speech research, predicts that dynamic
extremes such as the maximum speed of articulatory movement are avoided as much as …

Communicating by speech is seemingly one of the most natural activities for humans.
However, despite its apparent obviousness and ease, speech production is a very complex …

This paper outlines a theoretical approach to speech sound systems based on the notion of
phonological potentials: physical 'pressures' or biases that give rise to discrete structure and …