Articulatory Measures of Prosody

Prosodic research in speech production usually focuses on the way the prosodic structure influences the phonetic implementation of segmental and suprasegmental features. The realization of a tone, for instance, involves not only dynamic changes so as to regulate the vocal fold vibration to produce f0 contours, but also the movement of articulators to simultaneously produce consonants and vowels. Articulatory measuring techniques help us to directly observe how these two systems are coordinated in the spatio-temporal dimension. A number of such techniques are discussed, along with examples indicating how each technique may be or has been used to study various aspects of prosody. They include laryngoscopy and electroglottography to examine laryngeal events associated with vocal fold vibration; systems such as electromagnetic articulography, an optoelectronic device, electropalatography, and ultrasound systems to explore supralaryngeal articulatory events; and aerodynamic measurement systems to record oral/subglottal pressure and oral/nasal flow.

Acoustics · Articulatory Phonetics · Audiology · Electroglottograph · Linguistics · Phonation · Physics · Prosody · Realization (probability) · Speech production · Speech recognition · Tone (literature) · Computer Science · Mathematics · Medicine · Phonetics and Phonology Research · Speech and dialogue systems · Speech Recognition and Synthesis

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