TY  - CHAP
A1  - Fuchs, Susanne
A1  - Perrier, Pascal
T1  - On the complex nature of speech kinematics
T2  - Papers in phonetics and phonology / Ed.: Christian Geng ..., Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung, Berlin, 2001; ZAS papers in linguistics Vol. 42
N2  - Studying kinematic behavior in speech production is an indispensable and fruitful methodology in order to describe for instance phonemic contrasts, allophonic variations, prosodic effects in articulatory movements. More intriguingly, it is also interpreted with respect to its underlying control mechanisms. Several interpretations have been borrowed from motor control studies of arm, eye, and limb movements. They do either explain kinematics with respect to a fine tuned control by the Central Nervous System (CNS) or they take into account a combination of influences arising from motor control strategies at the CNS level and from the complex physical properties of the peripheral speech apparatus. We assume that the latter is more realistic and ecological. The aims of this article are: first, to show, via a literature review related to the so called '1/3 power law' in human arm motor control, that this debate is of first importance in human motor control research in general. Second, to study a number of speech specific examples offering a fruitful framework to address this issue. However, it is also suggested that speech motor control differs from general motor control principles in the sense that it uses specific physical properties such as vocal tract limitations, aerodynamics and biomechanics in order to produce the relevant sounds. Third, experimental and modelling results are described supporting the idea that the three properties are crucial in shaping speech kinematics for selected speech phenomena. Hence, caution should be taken when interpreting kinematic results based on experimental data alone.
KW  - Akustische Phonetik
KW  - Artikulatorische Phonetik
KW  - Artikulation
KW  - Sprechtempo
KW  - Artikulator
Y1  - 2005
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/30942
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-309427
UR  - http://www.zas.gwz-berlin.de/190.html?&L=1%2527%252band%252bchar%28124%29%25252Buser%25252Bchar%28124%29%25253D0%252band%252b%2527%2527%25253D%2527
SN  - 1435-9588
SN  - 0947-7055
VL  - 42
SP  - 137
EP  - 165
PB  - Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung
CY  - Berlin
ER  -