Abstract：
:Since the seminal works of Bernstein (The coordination and regulation of movements. Pergamon Press, Oxford, 1967) several authors have supported the idea that, to produce a goal-oriented movement in general, and a movement of the organs responsible for the production of speech sounds in particular, individuals activate a set of coupling relations that coordinate the behavior of the elements of the motor system involved in the production of the target movement or sound. In order to characterize the configurations of the coupling relations underlying speech production articulator movements, we introduce an original method based on recurrence analysis. The method is validated through the analysis of simulated dynamical systems adapted to reproduce the features of speech gesture kinematics and it is applied to the analysis of speech articulator movements recorded in five German speakers during the production of labial and coronal plosive and fricative consonants at variable speech rates. We were able to show that the underlying coupling relations change systematically between labial and coronal consonants, but are not affected by speech rate, despite the presence of qualitative changes observed in the trajectory of the jaw at fast speech rate.
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Biol Cybernjournal_title
Biological cyberneticsauthors
Lancia L,Rosenbaum Bdoi
10.1007/s00422-018-0749-ysubject
Has Abstractpub_date
2018-06-01 00:00:00pages
253-276issue
3eissn
0340-1200issn
1432-0770pii
10.1007/s00422-018-0749-yjournal_volume
112pub_type
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