The field of articulatory phonetics is concerned primarily with the question of how speech is
realized through movements of body structures. While articulatory phoneticians have often …

Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) causes multiple local and systemic pathophysiological
consequences, which lead to an increase in morbidity and mortality in patients suffering from …

Purpose Bracing of the tongue against opposing vocal-tract surfaces such as the teeth or
palate has long been discussed in the context of biomechanical, somatosensory, and …

More than 35 years ago, Meltzoff and Moore (1977) published their famous article,“Imitation
of facial and manual gestures by human neonates.” Their central conclusion, that neonates …

This dissertation examines the phonetic and phonological functioning of the supraglottal part
of the larynx, the epilarynx, from an articulatory-physiological perspective. The central thesis …

This article has two main purposes:(i) to review the placement and function of the tongue
and suprahyoid muscles concerning speech articulation, and (ii) as a biomechanical …

The outbreak of COVID-19 has caused immeasurable loss to the world. The highly
contagious virus poses a challenging risk to public health, especially medical doctors, who …

This article addresses a phenomenon of long-standing interest: the existence of child-
specific phonological patterns that are not attested in adult language. We propose a new …

The need to reduce the dimensionality of movement systems, and thereby to decrease
cognitive load, has long been recognized as a central challenge for theories of motor control …

Purpose Recent proposals suggest that (a) the high dimensionality of speech motor control
may be reduced via modular neuromuscular organization that takes advantage of intrinsic …