Linguistics 632
Fall 2008

Articulatory Phonology

Louis Goldstein
GFS 301G
louisgol@usc.edu

W 12-2:20
GFS 216

Syllabus

Course Outline

Weeks 1-2: Introduction to Articulatory Phonology

Intro Notes

  1. Browman, C. & Goldstein, L. (draft). Articulatory Phonology, Chapter 1.
  2. Goldstein, L., & Fowler, C. (2003). Articulatory phonology: a phonology for public language use. In Meyer, A. & Schiller, N., Phonetics and Phonology in Language Comprehension and Production: Differences and Similarities (pp. 159-207). New York: Mouton.

Week 2-3: More introduction; Gestures in Speech Perception

Notes on Liberman and Mattingly

  1. Liberman, A. M., & Mattingly, I. G. (1985). The motor theory of speech perception revised. Cognition, 21, 1-36. [especially pp. 1-23].
  2. Ohala, J. (1996). Speech perception is hearing sounds, not tongues. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 99, 1718-1725.
  3. Fowler, C. (1996). Listeners do hear sounds, not tongues. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 99, 1730-1741.
  4. Galuntucci, B., Fowler, C., & Turvey, M. (2006). The motor theory of speeh perception reviewed. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 13, 361-377.
  5. Fadiga, L., Craighero, L., Buccino, G., & Rizzolatti, G. (2002).Speech listening specifically modulates the excitability of tongue muscles: A TMS study. European Journal of Neuroscience, 15, 399-402.
  6. Kerzel, D., & Bekkering, H. (2000). Motor activation from visible speech: Evidence from stimulus response compatibility. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance. 26, 634-647.

Week 4: Introduction to Dynamics

Notes on Dynamics REVISED!

Exercise 1: TADA

  1. Browman, C. & Goldstein, L. (draft) Articulatory Phonology, Chapter 6.

Week 5: Task-dynamic model of phonetic structure and speech production

Notes on Dynamics and Action NEW!

Notes on Task Dynamics of Speech NEW!

Notes on TADA NEW!

TADA Manual

TADA Dictionary (English)

  1. Saltzman, E.L. (1995). Dynamics and coordinate systems in skilled sensorimotor activity. In T. van Gelder & B. Port (Eds.), Mind as Motion (pp. 149-173). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
  2. Browman, C. P., & Goldstein, L. M. (1995). Dynamics and articulatory phonology. In T. van Gelder & R. F. Port (Eds.), Mind as Motion (pp. 175-193). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
  3. Saltzman, E. L., and Munhall, K. G., (1989), A dynamical approach to gestural patterning in speech production. Ecological Psychology, 1, 333-382.

Weeks 6-7: Constriction Gestures: Stops

Exercise 2: Dynamical Targets for Stop and Fricatives

  1. Westbury , J. & Hashi, M. (1997). Lip-pellet positions during vowels and labial consonants. Journal of Phonetics, 25, 405-419.
  2. Lofqvist, A. (2005) Lip kinematics in long and short stop and fricative consonants. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 117, 858-878.
  3. Ridouane, R. (2006). Geminate consonants at the junction of phonetics and phonology. (to appear Laboratory Phonology 7).

Week 8: Other Constriction Types

Notes on Manipulating Dynamical Parameters and Modeling Geminate Consonants

TaDA and MVIEW files for Manipulating Dynamical Parameters and Modeling Geminates

Notes on production goals for stops vs. fricatives

Experiment 2: Next steps

  1. Narayanan, S., Alwan, A. & Haker, K. (1995). An articulatory study of fricative consonants using magnetic resonance imaging. JASA 98: 1325-1347.
  2. Geumann, A., Kross, C., & Tillman, H. (1999). Are there compensatory effects in natural speech.? Proceedings of the International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, San Francisco, 399-402..
  3. Fuchs, S, Perrier, P.,Geng, C, & Mooshammer, C. (2006). What role does the palate play in speech motor control? Insights from tongue kinematics for German alveolar obstruents. In: Harrington, J. & Tabain, M. (eds).Speech Production: Models, Phonetic Processes, and Techniques. Psychology Press.
  4. Solé, M.-J. (2000). Assimilatory processes and aerodynamic factors. In: Gussenhoven, C. & Warner, N. (eds). Laboratory Phonology 7, pp. 351-386. Berlin: Mouton-deGruyter.
  5. Nieto-Castanon, A., Guenther, F.H., Perkell, J.S., and Curtin, H. (2005). A modeling investigation of articulatory variability and acoustic stability during American English /r/ production. J Acoust Soc Am., 117, pp. 3196-3212.

Notes: The story of /r/

Week 9: Explaining phonetic and phonological variability using gestural overlap

  1. Browman, C. & Goldstein, L. (draft) Articulatory Phonology, Chapter 2.
  2. Browman, C.P., & Goldstein, L. (1990). Tiers in articulatory phonology, with some implications for casual speech. In J. Kingston & M.E. Beckman (Eds.), Papers in laboratory phonology I: Between the grammar and physics of speech (pp. 341-376). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [read pp. 359-372 only].
  3. Zsiga, E.C. (2000). Phonetic alignment constraints: consonant overlap and palatalization in English and Russian. Journal of Phonetics, 28 , 69-102.
  4. Chitoran, I., Goldstein, L. & Byrd, D. (2002). Gestural overlap and recoverability: Articulatory evidence from Georgian. In Gussenhoven, C. & Warner, N. (eds). Papers in Laboratory Phonology, 7, pp. 419-448.

Notes: Overlap Generalizations

Week 10: Introduction to Coupling Dynamics

  1. Pikovsky, A., Rosenblum, M. & Kurths, J. (2001). Synchronization: a Universal Concept in Nonlinear Sciences. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Chapters 1-3.
  2. Turvey, M.T. (1990). Coordination. American Psychologist, 45, 938-953.

Week 12: Coupled Oscillator Model of Gestural Timing and Syllable Structure

  1. Goldstein, L., Byrd, D., and Saltzman, E.(2006). The role of vocal tract gestural action units in understanding the evolution of phonology. In M. Arbib (Ed.) From Action to Language: The Mirror Neuron System. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 215-249.
  2. Goldstein, L., Nam, H., Saltzman, E. & Chitoran, I. (submitted) . Coupled oscillator planning model of speech timing and syllable structure. Chinese Jounal of Phonetics.
  3. Kühnert, B., Mooshammer, C. & Hoole, P. (2006). Gestural overlap and C-Center in selected French consonant clusters. Procedings of ISSP '06--7th International Seminar on Speech Production. Yehia, H., Demolin, D. & Laboissiere, R. (eds).
  4. Nam, H. and Saltzman, E.. (2003), A competitive, coupled oscillator of syllable structure. Proceedings of the XIIth International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Barcelona, (M. J. Solé, D. Recasens, and J. Romero, Eds).
  5. Krakow, R. (1999). Physiological organization of syllables: a review. Journal of Phonetics, 27. 23-54.
  6. Gick, B., Campbell, F., Oh, S. & Tamburri-Watt, L. (2006). Toward universals in the gestural organization of syllables: A cross-linguistic study of liquids. Journal of Phonetics, 34, 49-72.

Notes: coupled oscillator model

Week 14: Prosody

  1. Byrd, D. and Saltzman, E., (2003), The elastic phrase: Dynamics of boundary-adjacent lengthening. Journal of Phonetics, 31, 149-180.
  2. Keating, Patricia, Taehong  Cho, Cécile Fougeron, and C. Hsu (2003). Domain-initial strengthening in four languages.  Papers in Laboratory Phonology 6.. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 145-163.
  3. Saltzman, E., Nam, H., Krivokapic, J. & Goldstein, L. (2008). A task-dynamic toolkit for modeling the effects of prosodic structure on articulation. In Barbosa, P. A., Madureira, S., Reis, C. (Eds.), Proceedings of the Speech Prosody 2008 Conference.
  4. Kim, H., & Cole, J. (2005). The stress foot as a unit of planned timing: Evidence from shortening in the prosodic phrase. Proceedings of Interspeech '05, Lisbon, Portugal.
  5. Cummins, F., & Port, R. (1998). Rhythmic constraints on stress timing in English. Journal of Phonetics, 26, 145-171