Speed-curvature relations in speech production challenge the 1/3 power law

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 100, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1171-1183

  Perrier, Pascal ^a,c   Fuchs, Susanne ^b  

^a GRENOBLE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (France)

^b Centre for General Linguistics ZAS   (Germany)

^c GIPSA LAB   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KINEMATICS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MOTOR CONTROL; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; SPEECH; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH ARTICULATION; SPEECH RATE; TONGUE; VELOCITY; VOCAL CORD;

ADULT; BIOMECHANICS; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOVEMENT; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SPEECH; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT; TONGUE;

EID: 57349177005     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.01116.2007     Document Type: Article

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