Lingual articulation in humans is one of the primary means of vocal tract resonance filtering that produces the characteristic vowel formants of speech. In songbirds, the function of the tongue in song has not been thoroughly examined, although recent research has identified the oropharyngeal-esophageal cavity as a resonance filter that is actively tuned to the frequency of the song. In norther...

Judging from the volume of writing that has appeared in the dental literature and the number of courses presented in recent years on jaw movements and articulators, it would seem that most of the questions related to this subject would have been resolved. The variety and sophistication of the research techniques employed to measure mandibular movements and positions indicate the interest and de...

This paper investigates the production and perception of different articulation techniques on the saxophone. In a production experiment, two melodies were recorded that required different effectors to play the tones (tongue-only actions, finger-only actions, combined tongue and finger actions) at three different tempi. A sensor saxophone reed was developed to monitor tongue-reed interactions du...

A single biological object, such as a hand, can assume multiple, very different shapes, due to the articulation of its parts. Yet we are able to recognize all of these shapes as examples of the same object. How is this invariance to pose achieved? Here, we present evidence that the visual system maintains a model of object transformation that is based on rigid, convex parts articulating at extr...

This is a study of the perception of the voice distinction in Greek fricatives across different places of articulation. The results indicate that: (1) the acoustic correlate of voicing is not a categorical perception effect of fricative voice distinctions; at least not across all places of articulation, and 2) noise duration has a significant effect on fricative voice perception across all plac...

As one of the main expressive feature in music, articulation affects a wide range of tone attributes. Based on experimental recordings we analyzed human articulation in the late Baroque style. The results are useful for both the understanding of historically informed performance practices and further progress in synthetic performance generation. This paper reports of our findings and the implem...