Speech as Articulatory Encoding of Communicative Functions
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Speech conveys communicative meanings by encoding functional contrasts. The contrasts are realized through articulation, a biomechanical process with specific constraints. Phonology, phonetics or any other theories of speech therefore cannot be autonomous from either communicative functions or biophysical mechanisms. Successful speech modeling can be achieved only if communicative functions and biophysical mechanisms are treated as the core rather than the margins of speech.
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