The aim of this paper is threefold: First and foremost we would like to propose a new strategy of phonetic speech research that can be distinguished from more traditional research programs in more than one important aspect. As directly opposed to the classical analysis-by-synthesis paradigm our second aim is to install the new paradigm of synthesis-by-analysis. And our third aim is to convince ...

The growing orientation of public universities towards the corporate sector has had a significant impact on higher education discourse. The rhetoric of the free market, manifested most tangibly in business-related lexis, is now firmly established in the discursive repertoire employed by academic leaders, politicians, the media, as well as parts of higher education research. Within this rhetoric...

The standard way to represent language within linguistics is using letter-like units, i.e., with consonant and vowel phones and phonemes. But this representation, despite its powerful intuitive appeal is not supported by any experimental data. There are 4 straightforward predictions implied by this model. All are shown to fail. One of the main problems is the inability of segments to permit rep...

articulatory vocal tract movement gestures as the basis of linguistic representations. Phonology-phonetics interface – to appear in Oxford Bibliographies in Linguistics, 8/13 21 Hamann, Silke. 2011. “Phonetics-phonology interface.” In The continuum companion to phonology. Edited by Nancy Kula, Bert Botma, and Kuniya Nasukawa, 202-224. London/New York: Continuum. Useful overview paper, providing...