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 …

P-base (Mielke 2008) is a large typological database of several thousand phonological rules
and distributions in 537 languages. In this chapter we demonstrate how it can be applied to …

The articulatory and acoustic properties of any one phonological segment are known to vary
both between speakers and between tokens in an individual's speech. Much of this …

Syllable-final nasals/n/and/ŋ/in Taiwan Mandarin have been reported to be undergoing
merging. Perceptual studies have reported that the alleged merging is context-sensitive and …

A method is demonstrated for creating density-equalizing maps of IPA consonant and vowel
charts, where the size of a cell in the chart reflects information such as the crosslinguistic …

Syllable-final nasals/n/and/N/in Taiwan Mandarin have been reported to be undergoing
merging. Perceptual studies have reported that the alleged merging is context-sensitive and …

This study investigated the extent to which speaker-induced control and biomechanics play
a role in determining the outcome of spatial coarticulation. Employing ultrasound tongue …

Every speech sound results directly from body movement. However, theories of speech have
not always been grounded in biologically plausible theories of how bodies move. High …

Facial expressions and speech movements can impose conflicting demands on speech
articulators. For example, the bilabial closure for stop consonants/p/,/b/, and/m/compete with …

Facial expressions and speech movements can impose conflicting demands on articulators.
For example, the lip spreading movement associated with smiling is incompatible with …