Articulation without acoustics: “Soundless” vowels in Oneida and Blackfoot

Gick, Bryan; Bliss, Heather; Michelson, Karin; Radanov, Bosko

doi:10.1016/j.wocn.2011.09.002

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“…Recordings and (in rare cases) measurements of the lip movements have typically been used as supplementary to other methods, such as ultrasound or acoustic analysis. Among the phenomena recently investigated using the method are the sound change in rounded vowels in British English (Mayr, ), the production of inaudible vowels in Oneida and Blackfoot (Gick et al, ), interdental approximants (Mielke, Olson, Baker, & Archangeli, ), and whistled fricatives in Xitsonga (Lee‐Kim et al, ). For more detailed descriptions of common field practices using this method, please see Butcher (), Gick et al (: §10.3), and Ladefoged (: §2.1).…”

Section: Studying Oral Gestures: a Case Studymentioning

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Research methods in articulatory phonetics I: Introduction and studying oral gestures

Kochetov

2020

Language and Linguist. Compass

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This article is Part I of a general overview of current methods in articulatory phonetics research. This part deals with methods used to investigate oral gestures—speech‐related movements of the tongue, the lips, and the jaw (while Part II is concerned with methods studying laryngeal and nasal gestures, and the entire vocal tract). The focus of the article is on electropalatography, ultrasound, and electromagnetic articulography, with some attention also given to static palatography, X‐ray microbeam, and video recording. For comparison purposes, the methods are illustrated using similar articulatory data—productions of the plain‐palatalized contrast in Russian fricatives. Strengths and limitations of each method are discussed, and so are recent developments and trends.

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Section: Studying Oral Gestures: a Case Studymentioning

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Research methods in articulatory phonetics I: Introduction and studying oral gestures

Kochetov

2020

Language and Linguist. Compass

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“…Study 1 examines the role of sentential position as a predictor of what is typically described as vowel devoicing in the Blackfoot literature (Frantz & Russell 1995;Elfner 2006;Frantz 2009;Gick et al 2011;Bliss 2013). Within this literature, vowel devoicing, what I will call aspiration, is typically described as occurring at the end of an orthographic word.…”

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Predicting prosodic structure by morphosyntactic category: A case study of Blackfoot

Windsor

2017

Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics

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This study examines phonetic correlates to three prosodic categories in Blackfoot: the syllable (σ), the prosodic word (ω), and the phonological phrase (φ). I provide evidence that the Blackfoot σ is recognizable by an obligatory process of vowel coalescence and the φ is recognizable by an obligatory process of right edge aspiration. The ω can be distinguished from these other two prosodic constituents by an optional phonetic process which mimics intersyllabic vowel coalescence, but does not apply obligatorily.The prosodic categories investigated in this study are then correlated to three morphosyntactic categories: morphological agreement suffixes, lexical morphemes (adjectives and nouns), and demonstratives. This correlation is used to argue that morphological and syntactic processes function differently at the interface with phonology (cf. Russell 1999), ultimately raising questions with "word-internal syntax" analyses of Blackfoot suffixation which are derived through cyclic head movement (Bliss 2013; Wiltschko 2014) using the Mirror Principle (Baker 1985).

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“…The first property (acoustic signal) appropriately excludes oral movements without acoustic consequences such as tongue wagging. However, it also excludes articulation without sound, as may occur in natural environments (Gick et al, 2012) or in experimental contexts. One could argue that such soundless tasks are not speech, yet TDM proponents consider covert speech (silent mouthing of words) to reflect the speech system (Bunton, 2008; Wildgruber, Ackermann, & Grodd, 2001; Wildgruber et al, 1996), despite differences between overt and covert speech in terms of neural circuitry (e.g.…”

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Speech and nonspeech: What are we talking about?

Maas

2016

International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology

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Understanding of the behavioural, cognitive, and neural underpinnings of speech production is of interest theoretically, and is important for understanding disorders of speech production and how to assess and treat such disorders in the clinic. This paper addresses two claims about the neuromotor control of speech production: (1) speech is subserved by a distinct, specialised motor control system, (2) speech is holistic and cannot be decomposed into smaller primitives. Both claims have gained traction in recent literature, and are central to a task-dependent model of speech motor control (Ziegler, 2003a). The purpose of this paper is to stimulate thinking about speech production, its disorders, and the clinical implications of these claims. The paper poses several conceptual and empirical challenges for these claims – including the critical importance of defining speech. The emerging conclusion is that a task-dependent model is called into question as its two central claims are founded on ill-defined and inconsistently applied concepts. The paper concludes with discussion of methodological and clinical implications, including the potential utility of diadochokinetic (DDK) tasks in assessment of motor speech disorders and the contraindication of nonspeech oral motor exercises to improve speech function.

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Articulation without acoustics: “Soundless” vowels in Oneida and Blackfoot

Cited by 19 publications

References 9 publications

Research methods in articulatory phonetics I: Introduction and studying oral gestures

Research methods in articulatory phonetics I: Introduction and studying oral gestures

Predicting prosodic structure by morphosyntactic category: A case study of Blackfoot

Speech and nonspeech: What are we talking about?

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