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1st ETRW on Speech Production Modeling:
From Control Strategies to Acoustics
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1st ETRW on Speech Production Modeling:
From Control Strategies to Acoustics
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Beyond its technological spin-offs, is the speech mapping concept viable as a frame-work for an integrated approach to the sensori-motor foundations of language ? Psychological experiments and brain imaging data show that both speech production and reception areas can recruit one another: we will consequently argue against one-sided theories. The primacy of movement over shape in implicit knowledge or representational format is questioned in the light of visual vowel identification tasks and neuropsychological data. For motor-equivalence and sound-equivalence, it is shown that, when the articulatori-acoustic organisation is crucially perturbed, it is difficult not to adopt a remapping stance. A tentative two-sided story of the ontogenetic achievement of such an articulatori-acoustic organisation is given for the point vowel [u].
Bibliographic reference. Abry, Christian / Badin, Pierre (1996): "Speech mapping - as a framework for an integrated approach to the sensori-motor foundations of language", In SPM-1996, 175-184.