Linguistics 632
Fall 2010

Articulatory Phonology

Louis Goldstein
GFS 301G
louisgol@usc.edu

W 9-11:20
GFS 329

Syllabus

Class Notes and Reading

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.
  3. Gafos, D. & Goldstein, L. (in press). Articulatory representation and organization. In Cohn, A., Huffman, M., & Fougéron, C. (eds). Handbook of Laboratory Phonology. Oxford University Press.

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. D’Ausilio,A., Pulvermuller, F., Salmas,P., Bufalari,I., Begliomini,C. Fadiga, L. (2009). The motor somatotopy of speech perception. Current Biology, 19, 381–385.
  5. Galantucci, B., Fowler,C. and Goldstein, L. (2009). Perceptuomotor compatibility effects in speech. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics. 71, 1138-1149.
  6. Iskarous, K. (2010). Vowel constrictions are recoverable from formants. Journal of Phonetics, 38, 375–387.

Week 4: Introduction to Dynamics

Notes on Dynamics

Download TADA from here.

TADA Exercise 1

Notes on TaDA (0)

TaDA Manual

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

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

    Notes on Task Dynamics

    Notes on Task Dynamics of speech

    TaDA dictionaries

    Exercise 2: Tongue synergy for /d/

    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 (Read up to p. 355 ONLY).

    Weeks 6-7: Constriction Gestures:

    TADA manual

    Notes on TaDA

    Download tada_basic_cfg: here.

    Download allF2 here

    Notes on Manipulating Dynamical Parameters and Modeling Geminate Consonants

    Notes on production goals for stops vs. 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).
    4. 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.
    5. Solé, M.-J. (2000). Assimilatory processes and aerodynamic factors. In: Gussenhoven, C. & Warner, N. (eds). Laboratory Phonology 7, pp. 351-386. Berlin: Mouton-deGruyter.
    Weeks 8-9: Gestural Gestural Scores and overlap in consonant sequences

    Gestural scores of C#C sequences in English and Cantonese

    Gestural scores of C#C sequences in English and Cantonese, next chapter

    Gestural scores of C#C sequences in English and Cantonese analysis and wrap-up

    Notes on gestural scores

    1. Browman, C. & Goldstein, L. (draft) Articulatory Phonology, Chapters 2-3.
    2. Zsiga, E.C. (2000). Phonetic alignment constraints: consonant overlap and palatalization in English and Russian. Journal of Phonetics, 28 , 69-102.
    3. 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.
    4. Gafos, A. (2002). A grammar of gestural coordination. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory. 20: 269-337.
      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 11: Coupled Oscillator Model of Gestural Timing and Syllable Structure

      Notes on coupled Oscillator Model

      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. Browman, C.P. & Goldstein, L. (1995). Gestural syllable position effects in American English. In F. Bell-Berti and L. Raphael (eds.). Studies in Speech Production: A Festschrift for Katherine Safford Harris. (pp. 19-34).Woodbury NY: American Institute of Physics.
      3. Nam, H., Goldstein, L., & Saltzman, E. (in press). Self-organization of syllable structure: a coupled oscillator model. In F. Pellegrino, E. Marisco, & I. Chitoran, (Eds). Approaches to phonological complexity. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter. 

      Week 12: Complex Onsets

      Notes on onset clusters

      Notes on onsets vs. codas

      1. Goldstein, L, Nam, H., Saltzman, E. & Chitoran, I. (in press). Coupled oscillator planning model of speech timing and syllable structure. Chinese Journal of Phonetics.
      2. Pouplier, M. and Marin, S. (2010). Temporal organization of complex onsets and codas in American English: Testing the predictions of a gestural coupling model. Motor Control, 14, 380-407
      3. Goldstein, L., Chitoran, I, & Selkirk, E. (2007). Syllable structure as coupled oscillator modes: Evidence from Georgian and Tashlhiyt Berber. Trouvain, W. and Barry, W. (eds.) Proceedings of the XVI International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, pp. 241-244.
      4. Shaw, J., Gafos, A., Hoole, P., & Zeroual, C. (2009). Syllabi&Mac222;cation in Moroccan Arabic : evidence from patterns of temporal stability in articulation. Phonology , 26, 187–215.

      Week 13: Qualitative Shift in modes and dynamical grammars

      Notes on speech errors

      Notes on Sound change

      Notes and Dyamics and Grammar

      1. Goldstein, L., Pouplier, M., Chen, L., Saltzman, E., Byrd, D. (2006). Dynamic action units slip in speech production errors. Cognition, 103, 386–412 .
      2. Gafos, A. & Benus, S. (2006). Dynamics of phonlogical cognition. Cognitive Science, 30, 837-862.
      3. Goldstein, L. (in press). Back to the past tense in English.. In Bravo,R., Mikkelsen, L. & Potsdam, E. (eds). Representing Language: Essays in Honor of Judith Aissen.

      Week 14: Prosody

      Notes on Prosody

      1. Byrd, D. and Saltzman, E., (2003). The elastic phrase: Dynamics of boundary-adjacent lengthening. Journal of Phonetics, 31, 149-180.
      2. 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.
      3. Cummins, F., & Port, R. (1998). Rhythmic constraints on stress timing in English. Journal of Phonetics, 26, 145-171.
      4. Tilsen, S. (2009). Multitimescale Dynamical Interactions Between Speech Rhythm and Gesture. Cognitive Science, 33, 839–879.