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Articulatory Perspectives of Speech Organization

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Research issues of speech production are discussed assuming that speech is organized based on crucial articulatory gestures, relating the phonological representation of a sentence to a physical utterance with certain information added to the lexicosyntactic specifications. It is argued that recent progress in both phonological theory and experimental methods of recording and processing articulatory gestures substantiates a radical departure from the traditional linguistic view that speech is organized by concatenating phonemic segments.

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Fujimura, O. (1990). Articulatory Perspectives of Speech Organization. In: Hardcastle, W.J., Marchal, A. (eds) Speech Production and Speech Modelling. NATO ASI Series, vol 55. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2037-8_13

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