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speech kinematics

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Human Speech Kinematics

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Gestural Speech Kinematics

1973 - 1987

During the period 1973–1987, speech production research consolidated a gestural view of articulation in which jaw, tongue, lips, velum, chest wall, and related structures are examined as a coordinated system. Researchers employed diverse instrumentation to track timing, amplitude, and velocity of gestures, revealing integrated control across articulators and challenging models that treated the tongue in isolation. Coarticulation emerged as an organized, anticipatory and carryover phenomenon, with distinct temporal and spatial patterns across phonetic contexts and clear asymmetries in articulation. Perturbation experiments demonstrated utterance-specific compensatory movements in the lips and jaw, suggesting centralized coordinative structures that constrain articulatory response rather than simple reflexes. Instrumental analyses began to quantify dysarthria and verbal dyspraxia as distinctive articulatory-phonatory patterns, using electropalatography, pneumotachography, and related transduction systems to map tongue–palate coordination and voicing dynamics. Finally, linking vowel production and perception to dynamic formant transitions, period research produced cross-speaker references for acoustic–phonetic mapping and highlighted the role of gesture timing in vowel evolution and perception.

Integrated multi-articulator kinematics were studied using diverse instrumentation (lip/jaw, tongue, chest wall) to track timing, amplitude, and velocity of speech gestures, revealing coordinated control across articulators beyond isolated tongue movements [3], [16], [5], [12], [8].

Coarticulation patterns are characterized by anticipatory and carryover effects in both temporal and spatial domains, demonstrated in VCV sequences and tongue-lip-jaw coordination, with rapid differences across phonetic contexts and asymmetries in articulation [2], [12], [20].

Perturbation experiments reveal fast, utterance-specific compensatory movements in lip and jaw, suggesting coordinative structures in speech that constrain articulatory response to perturbations rather than simple reflexes [4], [13].

Instrumental analyses show distinctive articulatory-phonatory patterns in dysarthria and verbal dyspraxia, using electropalatography, pneumotachography, and transduction systems to quantify deviations in tongue–palate coordination and voicing [7], [11], [16].

Vowel production and perception are tied to articulatory formants and dynamic vowel transitions, with Dutch vowel frequency analyses and vowel/non-vowel identification studies providing cross-speaker references for acoustic-phonetic mapping [10], [6], [11].

Integrated Multimodal Articulatory Kinematics

1988 - 2003

Task-Dynamic Articulatory Phonology

2004 - 2010

In Vivo Articulatory Neurokinematics

2011 - 2017

Gesture-Speech Kinematics

2018 - 2021