Lexical frequency co-determines the speed-curvature relation in articulation

Tomaschek, Fabian; Arnold, Denis; Bröker, Franziska; Baayen, R. Harald

doi:10.1016/j.wocn.2018.02.003

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“…This effect can be explained by opposing forces onto the movement of the tongue body. On the one hand, greater proficiency allows the tongue to execute articulatory trajectories in a more skilled way, as we already have shown in Tomaschek et al (2018c) and Tomaschek et al (2018a). On the other hand, greater proficiency results in stronger anticipation of upcoming targets and gestures, which is in line with findings for hand movements (Sosnik et al, 2004).…”

Section: Articulatory Trajectories In the [I:] Vowelsupporting

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How is anticipatory coarticulation of suffixes affected by lexical proficiency?

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Ramscar³

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More and more studies find differences in fine phonetic detail related to the morphological function of words and segments. In the present study, we investigated to what extent these differences arise due to anticipatory coarticulation of inflectional exponents and the amount of long-term practice with individual verbs such as American English "clean", "cleaned", "cleans", "cleaning". Kinematic studies of hand movements show that with greater practice, i.e. regular repetition of a sequence of gestures, upcoming gestures are stronger and smoother anticipated. Consequently, we hypothesized to find stronger anticipatory coarticulation of inflectional exponents during the articulation of the stem vowel in verbs for which speakers acquired a greater lexical proficiency, as their articulatory gestures were better practiced. We observed both, stronger anticipatory coarticulation towards the offset of the gesture and less coarticulation concomittant with more hyperarticulation towards the onset of the gesture. We link these results to findings that morphological function is reflected in fine phonetic detail, challenging traditional models of speech production, which assume a separation of lexical information and the phonetic detail.

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Section: Articulatory Trajectories In the [I:] Vowelsupporting

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How is anticipatory coarticulation of suffixes affected by lexical proficiency?

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Ramscar³

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“…The more practical experience with a given speech goal in various phonetic environments (e.g., a lingual constriction gesture for the vowel /i/ in different consonantal environments), the more proficient the anticipatory patterns are likely to be. For instance, in adults, frequent words have been associated with greater articulatory practice (Tomaschek, Arnold, Bröker, & Baayen, 2018) and pseudowords produced repeatedly were found to increase movement speed and decrease in variability (Tiede, Mooshammer, Goldstein, Shattuck-Hufnagel, & Perkell, 2011).…”

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Back From the Future: Nonlinear Anticipation in Adults' and Children's Speech

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Wieling

Abakarova

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Purpose: This study examines the temporal organization of vocalic anticipation in German children from 3 to 7 years of age and adults. The main objective was to test for nonlinear processes in vocalic anticipation, which may result from the interaction between lingual gestural goals for individual vowels and those for their neighbors over time.Method: The technique of ultrasound imaging was employed to record tongue movement at 5 time points throughout short utterances of the form V1#CV2. Vocalic anticipation was examined with generalized additive modeling, an analytical approach allowing for the estimation of both linear and nonlinear influences on anticipatory processes. Results: Both adults and children exhibit nonlinear patterns of vocalic anticipation over time with the degree and extent of vocalic anticipation varying as a function of the individual consonants and vowels assembled. However, noticeable developmental discrepancies were found with vocalic anticipation being present earlier in children's utterances at 3-5 years of age in comparison to adults and, to some extent, 7-year-old children.Conclusions: A developmental transition towards more segmentally-specified coarticulatory organizations seems to occur from kindergarten to primary school to adulthood. In adults, nonlinear anticipatory patterns over time suggest a strong differentiation between the gestural goals for consecutive segments. In children, this differentiation is not yet mature: Vowels show greater prominence over time and seem activated more in phase with those of previous segments relative to adults.

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“…This became possible due to the adoption of novel statistical tools, such as Generalized Additive Mixed Modelling (Wood, 2006; van Rij, Wieling, Baayen, & van Rijn, 2015; Wieling, 2018). These types of analyses have been recently applied to data from EMA (Tomaschek, Arnold, Bröker, & Baayen, 2018), ultrasound (e.g., Strycharczuk & Sebregts, 2018), MRI (Johnson et al, 2019), nasal and oral airflow (Desmeules‐Trudel & Brunelle, 2018), and EPG and air pressure (Ünal‐Logacev et al, 2018). Overall, this development reflects a general increase in computational power and analytical sophistication manifested in phonetic research (and quantitative linguistic research in general) over the last decade.…”

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Research methods in articulatory phoneticsII: Studying other gestures and recent trends

Kochetov

2020

Language and Linguist. Compass

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This article is Part II of a general overview of current methods in articulatory phonetics research (which also consists of Part I "Research methods in articulatory phonetics I: Introduction & studying oral gestures"). The article begins by examining methods employed by phoneticians to investigate laryngeal and nasal gestures-speech-related configurations of the glottis and the lowering/raising the velum for nasal/oral consonants and vowels. This is done by reviewing the methods of electroglottography, endoscopy, photoglottography, and measurements of airflow and air pressure. The article further examines magnetic resonance imaging and radiography (X-rays)-the methods employed to investigate the entire vocal tract. The review is concluded with the methods of video recording and optical tracking, as used to study manual gestures in speech and sign language. Each methodological section contains a review of relevant journal publications illustrating the application of the method, as well as references to further readings. The article concludes with an overview of current developments and trends in instrumental articulatory phonetics, and highlight issues requiring further research.

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Lexical frequency co-determines the speed-curvature relation in articulation

Cited by 24 publications

References 38 publications

How is anticipatory coarticulation of suffixes affected by lexical proficiency?

How is anticipatory coarticulation of suffixes affected by lexical proficiency?

Back From the Future: Nonlinear Anticipation in Adults' and Children's Speech

Research methods in articulatory phoneticsII: Studying other gestures and recent trends

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