Influences of tongue biomechanics on speech movements during the production of velar stop consonants: A modeling study

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 114, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 1582-1599

  Perrier, Pascal ^a   Payan, Yohan ^b   Zandipour, Majid ^c   Perkell, Joseph ^c  

^a GRENOBLE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (France)

^b LABORATOIRE TIMC IMAG   (France)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMECHANICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; TISSUE;

SPEECH MOVEMENTS;

AUDIO ACOUSTICS;

ACOUSTICS;

ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; CONSONANT; ELASTICITY; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; INNERVATION; PALATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; SPEECH; SPEECH ARTICULATION; TONGUE;

BIOMECHANICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HUMANS; PHONATION; PHONETICS; SPEECH; TONGUE;

EID: 0043193934     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1587737     Document Type: Article

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