Emergence and Adaptation: Studies in Speech Communication and Language Development

✍ Scribed by R. D. Diehl, Randy L. Diehl, Olle Engstrand, John Kingston, Klaus Kohler

• Publisher: S Karger Ag
• Year: 2000
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 246
• Series: Phonetica
• Edition: Special
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This volume unites papers in speech communication and language development which were presented as a broad interdisciplinary spectrum of all aspects of vocal communication at a Symposium held in honor of Bjorn Lindblom. These papers deal with the acoustic patterning of speech, its perceptual processing, the biology of communication, and motor processes, including animal communication, language acquisition as well as sound structures in the languages of the world. They look at the emergence of sound structures in the child and the adaptation of these structures in speech production and speech perception of adult language users under anatomical, physiological, physical, linguistic, social and situational constraints. Phoneticians, linguists, psychologists, communication scientists, biophysicists, and zoologists will all find important contributions to their own fields, of great current value, and from a truly interdisciplinary perspective.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 4
Foreword......Page 7
Investigating Unscripted Speech: Implications for Phonetics and Phonology......Page 8
Emotive Transforms......Page 18
The Source-Filter Frame of Prominence......Page 36
The C/D Model and Prosodic Control of Articulatory Behavior......Page 51
Diverse Acoustic Cues at Consonantal Landmarks......Page 62
Modeling and Perception of ‘Gesture Reduction’......Page 75
General Auditory Processes Contribute to Perceptual Accommodation of Coarticulation......Page 93
Adaptive Dispersion in Vowel Perception......Page 104
Language Acquisition as Complex Category Formation......Page 112
Singing Birds, Playing Cats, and Babbling Babies: Why Do They Do It?......Page 120
The Phonetic Potential of Nonhuman Vocal Tracts: Comparative Cineradiographic Observations of Vocalizing Animals......Page 128
Dynamic Simulation of Human Movement Using Large-Scale Models of the Body......Page 142
An Embodiment Perspective on the Acquisition of Speech Perception......Page 152
Speech to Infants as Hyperspeech: Knowledge-Driven Processes in Early Word Recognition......Page 165
The Construction of a First Phonology......Page 178
Searching for an Auditory Description of Vowel Categories......Page 190
Imitation and the Emergence of Segments......Page 198
Deriving Speech from Nonspeech: A View from Ontogeny......Page 207
Developmental Origins of Adult Phonology: The Interplay between Phonetic Emergents and the Evolutionary Adaptations of Sound Patterns......Page 220
Publications Björn Lindblom......Page 238
V......Page 245
Contents Vol. 57, 2000......Page 246