Articulator movement in anticipatory coarticulation

Anticipatory coarticulation facilitates word recognition in toddlers.

Children learn from their environments and their caregivers. To capitalize on learning opportunities, young children have to recognize familiar words efficiently by integrating contextual cues across word boundaries. Previous research has shown that adults can use phonetic cues from anticipatory coarticulation during word recognition. We asked whether 18-24 month-olds (n=29) used coarticulatory...

Anticipatory Coarticulation in a Specific Context

In Hungarian casual speech, [n] may not be fully pronounced before continuant consonants. In this paper the durational changes of the vowel and the nasal as well as the formants of the vowel were analyzed in VNC sequences. The spreading coarticulatory effect in these sequences is supposed to originate from the continuant C (fricatives and approximants) that modifies the [n] articulation. The re...

Immediate effects of anticipatory coarticulation in spoken-word recognition.

Two visual-world experiments examined listeners' use of pre word-onset anticipatory coarticulation in spoken-word recognition. Experiment 1 established the shortest lag with which information in the speech signal influences eye-movement control, using stimuli such as "The … ladder is the target". With a neutral token of the definite article preceding the target word, saccades to the referent we...

Effects of Anticipatory Coarticulation on Vowel Detection in Meaningful Words

Dynamical System Modelling of Articulator Movement

We describe the modelling of articulatory movements using (hidden) dynamical system models trained on Electro-Magnetic Articulograph (EMA) data. These models can be used for automatic speech recognition and to give insights into articulatory behaviour. They belong to a class of continuous-state Markov models, which we believe can offer improved performance over conventional Hidden Markov Models...