Purpose This article was written as an editorial to a collection of original articles on apraxia
of speech (AOS) in which some of the more recent advancements in the understanding of …

Articulatory Phonology advances an account of phonological structure in which dynamically
defined vocal tract tasks—gestures—are simultaneously and isomorphically units of …

Mental representations have continuous as well as discrete, combinatorial properties. For
example, while predominantly discrete, phonological representations also vary …

It has already been observed that there is no one-to-one mapping between intonational
categories and the pragmatic functions they are used to express. For instance, in German a …

Abstract Articulatory Phonology and Task Dynamics model spoken language mathematically
based on dynamical systems, expressing the view that speaking is similar in nature to many …

It has been claimed that the long established neutralization of the voicing distinction in
domain final position in German is phonetically incomplete. However, many studies that …

This book explores the nature of cognitive representations and processes in speech motor
control, based primarily on evidence from speech timing. It engages with the key question of …

Using a combination of magnetometry and ultrasound, we examined the articulatory
characteristics of the so-called 'transparent'vowels [iː],[i], and [eː] in Hungarian vowel …

Studies of speech accommodation provide evidence for change in use of language
structures beyond the critical/sensitive period. For example, Sancier and Fowler (1997) …

Speech entrainment is the tendency of interlocutors to become similar to each other during
spoken interaction. Entrainment is a natural component of the cognitive system underlying …