This paper examines the wide spectrum of phonetic properties associated with the
phonological distinctions between consonant classes such as/p, t, k/and/b, d, g/in a great …

Articulatory Phonology advances an account of phonological structure in which dynamically
defined vocal tract tasks—gestures—are simultaneously and isomorphically units of …

We propose an approach to phonological representation based on describing an utterance
as an organised pattern of overlapping articulatory gestures. Because movement is inherent …

This study used a multi-talker database containing intelligibility scores for 2000 sentences
(20 talkers, 100 sentences), to identify talker-related correlates of speech intelligibility. We …

Speech produced by two speakers was manually segmented, generating two databases
with 18,000 and 6,000 vowel segments. The effects on vowel duration of several contextual …

This paper is an apparent-time study of sound change in a three-way laryngeal contrast of
Korean stops. The data are drawn from a read speech corpus distributed by the National …

German is well known for its neutralization of the voicing contrast in word-final obstruents.
However, acoustic analysis of ten pairs of German words produced by ten native speakers …

This work illustrates a number of general characteristics of the dynamical ap-proach to
cognition. For example, it rejects the fraditional assumptions that cognitive processes and …

Sound Patterns of Spoken English is a concise, to-the-point compendium of information
about the casual pronunciation of everyday English as compared to formal citation forms …

Two factors have been proposed as the main determinants of phonological typology:
channel bias, phonetically systematic errors in transmission, and analytic bias, cognitive …