Dynamic action units slip in speech production errors

Abstract

In the past, the nature of the compositional units proposed for spoken language has largely diverged from the types of control units pursued in the domains of other skilled motor tasks. A classic source of evidence as to the units structuring speech has been patterns observed in speech errors -"slips of the tongue". The present study reports, for the first time, on kinematic data from tongue and lip movements during speech errors elicited in the laboratory using a repetition task. Our data are consistent with the hypothesis that speech production results from the assembly of dynamically defined action units -gestures -in a linguistically structured environment. The experimental results support both the presence of gestural units and the dynamical properties of these units and their coordination. This study of speech articulation shows that it is possible to develop a principled account of spoken language within a more general theory of action.

Prevalence and Characteristics of Game Transfer Phenomena: A Descriptive Survey Study

“…Speech errors or slips of the tongue (Goldstein, Pouplier, Chen, Saltzman, & Byrd, 2007) were also reported in a previous study and gamers have also found themselves humming music or making sounds from the videogame (Ortiz de Gortari & Griffiths, 2014c). Acting out a behavior or performing an activity influenced by a videogame was the least common type in this modality.…”

Parâmetros acústicos e articulatórios durante a produção do contraste entre oclusivas alveolares e velares: dados típicos e de desvio fonológico

“…In a way, the tongue images of the children with phonological disorders seem not to correspond the categorical substitutions, ones that are equal to a complete decrease of the intended gesture, followed by a total intrusion of the wrong/substituted gesture (9) . This assertion is based both in the apparent decrease in the magnitude of the tongue dorsum gesture, and in the moments of instability verified during the production of one only individual with the use of the strategy of alveolar posteriorization.…”

“…According to this point of view, the instabilities of the phonic system are justified as resulting from the following factors: the reduction in the time and space magnitude of individual articulatory gestures (8,9,10,11) ; the increase in the gestural superposition (11) ; the occurrence of intrusive gestures (8,9) , or the dependence among articulators (12) . With the growing interest, in the area of Linguistics and Speech Therapy, in the use of instrumental methodologies (acoustic and/or articulatory), it is possible to observe and describe which and to what extent the acoustic and/or articulatory parameters have been used to the distinction of the several speech sounds, before they have been noticed by ears (13) .…”

An identity bias in phonotactics: Evidence from Cochabamba Quechua

“…A more specific proposal for an articulatory preference for identity comes from studies of gestural phasing (Pouplier and Goldstein 2005;Goldstein et al 2007;Pouplier 2008). When participants are asked to repeat phrases like top cop, which involve alternating alveolar and velar onsets in otherwise matching syllables, articulatory data show intrusion errors where a velar gesture is produced during the alveolar gesture, changing the alternating phasing of the alveolar and velar gestures to be simultaneous.…”

“…To pursue an explanation for the current results in speech planning, work needs to be done that explicitly addresses speech planning considerations for ejectives and plain stops in CQ and establishes a production preference for repeated, simultaneous gestures. A task could be designed that more closely resembles the conditions that triggered errors in top cop phrases in Pouplier and Goldstein (2005), Goldstein et al (2007), and Pouplier (2008). In those experiments, participants were asked to repeat the same phrase with alternating onsets over and over.…”