Coarticulation in Fluent Fingerspelling

Coarticulation in fluent fingerspelling.

In speech, the phenomenon of coarticulation (differentiation of phoneme production depending on the preceding or following phonemes) suggests an organization of movement sequences that is not strictly serial. In the skeletal motor system, however, evidence for comparable fluency has been lacking. Thus the present study was designed to quantify coarticulation in the hand movement sequences of si...

Anticipatory coarticulation and stability of speech in typically fluent speakers and people who stutter.

This project replicates and extends previous work on coarticulation in velar-vowel sequences in English. Coarticulatory data for 46 young adult speakers, 23 who stutter and 23 who do not stutter show coarticulatory patterns in young adults who stutter that are no different from typical young adults. Additionally, the stability of velar-vowel production is analysed in token-to-token variability ...

Fingerspelling by Computer

Using N-Gram Analytics to Improve Automatic Fingerspelling Generation

Fingerspelling recognition is one of the last skills acquired, due to the complex nature of fingerspelling and a lack of display technology that is sufficiently natural for recognition practice. This paper describes a corpus-based study utilizing an n-gram extension to ELAN to gain a deeper understanding of deletion and coarticulation in fingerspelling. The analysis shows that coarticulation an...

Understanding Coarticulation in Music

The term coarticulation designates the fusion of small-scale events such as single sounds and single sound-producing actions into larger chunks of sound and body motion, resulting in qualitative new features at the mediumscale level of the chunk. Coarticulation has been extensively studied in linguistics and to a certain extent in other domains of human body motion, but so far not so much in mu...