A fundamental assumption in prosthetic dentistry is that the axis-orbital plane will usually be parallel to the horizontal reference plane. Most articulator systems have incorporated this concept into their designs and use orbitale as the anterior reference point for transferring the vertical position of the maxilla to the articulator. Clinical observations of Cantonese patients suggest that in...

We present a novel method for generating additional pseudo-articulator trajectories suitable for use within the framework of a stochastically trained speech production system recently developed at CUED. The system is initialised by inverting a codebook of (articulator, spectral vector) pairs, and the target positions for a set of pseudo-articulators and the mapping from these to speech spectral...

Speech perception is thought to be linked to speech motor production. This linkage is considered to mediate multimodal aspects of speech perception, such as audio-visual and audio-tactile integration. However, direct coupling between articulatory movement and auditory perception has been little studied. The present study reveals a clear dissociation between the effects of a listener's own speec...

The derivational view of phonetics-phonology (Ladd, this volume) expresses an intuition that seems valid, namely, that there is a distinction to be made between quantitative and qualitative aspects of phonetics-phonology. Incomplete neutralization (Ernestus and Baayen, this volume) and other phenomena like it indicate that the specific way of drawing that distinction is too rigid. At the same t...

The future of dental practice is closely linked to the utilization of computer-based technology, specifically virtual reality, which allows the dental surgeon to simulate true life situations in patients. The virtual articulator has been designed for the exhaustive analysis of static and dynamic occlusion, with the purpose of substituting mechanical articulators and avoiding their errors. These...

Articulator settings were obtained for two subjects 10 times in a 2-week period by using both a lateral interocclusal record technique and a Pantronic pantograph. The ORB and PSS articulator settings obtained from the two techniques were compared and the following conclusions drawn. 1. Over a 2-week period, the variance in the Pantronic pantograph ORB and PSS articulator settings was less than ...

Sociophonetics integrates principles, techniques, and theoretical frameworks from phonetics with those from sociolinguistics. Early work under this label typically involved applications of standard phonetic methods – vowel formant analysis, for example – to ‘sociolinguistic’ data, such as socially-differentiated corpora of speech, or to non-standard dialects of widely-spoken languages. In that ...