Analysis of speech production real-time MRI

V Ramanarayanan, S Tilsen, M Proctor, J Töger… - Computer Speech & …, 2018 - Elsevier
Recent advances in real-time magnetic resonance imaging (RT-MRI) have made it possible
to study the anatomy and dynamic motion of the vocal tract during speech production with …

Planting the seed for sound change: Evidence from real-time MRI of velum kinematics in German

C Carignan, S Coretta, J Frahm, J Harrington, P Hoole… - Language, 2021 - muse.jhu.edu
Velum movement signals generated from real-time magnetic resonance imaging videos of
thirty-five German speakers were used to investigate the physiological conditions that might …

High‐frame‐rate full‐vocal‐tract 3D dynamic speech imaging

M Fu, MS Barlaz, JL Holtrop, JL Perry… - Magnetic resonance …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose To achieve high temporal frame rate, high spatial resolution and full‐vocal‐tract
coverage for three‐dimensional dynamic speech MRI by using low‐rank modeling and …

Analyzing speech in both time and space: Generalized additive mixed models can uncover systematic patterns of variation in vocal tract shape in real-time MRI

C Carignan, P Hoole, E Kunay, M Pouplier… - … Phonology: Journal of …, 2020 - pure.mpg.de
We present a method of using generalized additive mixed models (GAMMs) to analyze
midsagittal vocal tract data obtained from real-time magnetic resonance imaging (rt-MRI) …

Advances in real-time magnetic resonance imaging of the vocal tract for speech science and technology research

A Toutios, SS Narayanan - APSIPA Transactions on Signal and …, 2016 - cambridge.org
Real-time magnetic resonance imaging (rtMRI) of the moving vocal tract during running
speech production is an important emerging tool for speech production research providing …

Is vowel nasalisation phonological in English? A systematic review

M Krämer - English Language & Linguistics, 2019 - cambridge.org
Vowel nasalisation in American English has been the subject of a long discussion as to
whether it is a phonological process or whether it should better be analysed as phonetic …

Test–retest repeatability of human speech biomarkers from static and real-time dynamic magnetic resonance imaging

J Töger, T Sorensen, K Somandepalli… - The Journal of the …, 2017 - pubs.aip.org
Static anatomical and real-time dynamic magnetic resonance imaging (RT-MRI) of the upper
airway is a valuable method for studying speech production in research and clinical settings …

Revisiting the nasal continuum hypothesis: A study of French nasals in continuous speech

G de Boer, J Islam, C Purnomo, L Wu, B Gick - Journal of Phonetics, 2023 - Elsevier
Speech sounds are generally classified as either nasal or oral, with the velopharyngeal
opening (VPO) characterized as simply open or closed. This account contrasts with clinical …

Nasal coarticulation in Bininj Kunwok: An aerodynamic analysis

HM Stoakes, JM Fletcher, AR Butcher - Journal of the International …, 2020 - cambridge.org
Bininj Kunwok (BKw), a language spoken in Northern Australia, restricts the degree of
anticipatory nasalization, as suggested by previous aerodynamic and acoustic analyses …

Öhman returns: New horizons in the collection and analysis of imaging data in speech production research

P Hoole, M Pouplier - Computer Speech & Language, 2017 - Elsevier
There have been enormous technical advances in the use of imaging techniques in speech
production research in terms of resolution and frame rates. However, a major bottleneck lies …