1 Introduction the purpose of this chapter is to provide an integrative overview of studies of
the development of the neuromotor processes involved in controlling articulatory movements …

Purpose Current approaches to speech production aim to explain adult behavior and so
make assumptions that, when taken to their logical conclusion, fail to adequately account for …

The major goal of the present study is to provide a contribution to the enterprise of
increasing the ties between phonology and phonetics within linguistic theory. With this goal …

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 theoretical overview and supporting data are presented about the control of the segmental
component of speech production. Findings of “motor-equivalent” trading relations between …

A theory of the segmental component of speech motor control is presented, followed by
supporting data. According to the theory, speech movements are programmed to achieve …

How do infants learn to understand and produce spoken language? Despite decades of
intensive investigation, the answer to this question remains largely a mystery. This is, in part …

The American English phoneme/r/has long been associated with large amounts of
articulatory variability during production. This paper investigates the hypothesis that the …

The overall objective of our research is to model the brain activity and the motor,
biomechanical and sensory processes involved in speech production. Our approach is to …

6.1 Background Hungarian is an Uralic (Finno-Ugric, Ugric) language spoken by around 15
million people in Hungary and (as a minority language) in several of the surrounding states …