A model-based investigation of activations of the tongue muscles in vowel production

Acoustical Science and Technology

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 277-287

  Fang, Qiang ^a   Fujita, Satoru ^b   Lu, Xugang ^c   Dang, Jianwu ^a  

^a JAPAN ADVANCED INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b AI Inc   (Japan)

^c ADVANCED TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE INTERNATIONAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Muscle activation; Physiological articulatory model; Speech production; Vowel production

Indexed keywords

3D MODELS; ACTIVATION LEVEL; CONTROL UNIT; EMG MEASUREMENT; JAPANESE VOWELS; MODEL BASED APPROACH; MODEL SIMULATION; MODEL-BASED; MUSCLE ACTIVATION; OPTIMIZATION APPROACH; PHYSIOLOGICAL ARTICULATORY MODEL; SPEECH MOTOR CONTROL; SPEECH PRODUCTION; VOWEL PRODUCTION;

CHEMICAL ACTIVATION; PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS; SIMULATORS; SPEECH; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

MUSCLE;

EID: 68149091737     PISSN: 13463969     EISSN: 13475177     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1250/ast.30.277     Document Type: Article

References (37)

1. M. Stone, "Modeling the motion of the internal tongue from tagged cine-MRI images," J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 109, 2974-2982 (2001).
2. S. Kiritani, K. Miyawaki, O. Fujimura and J. E. Miller, "A computational model of the tongue," Ann. Bull. RILP, 10, 243-251 (1976).
3. K. Hashimoto and K. Sasaki, "On the relationship between the shape and position of the tongue for vowels," J. Phonet., 10, 291-299 (1982).
4. P. MacNeilage and G. Sholes, "An electromyographic study of the tongue during vowel production," J. Speech Hear. Res., 7, 209-232 (1964).
5. T. Smith, "A phonetic study of the functions of the extrinsic tongue muscles," UCLA Work. Pap. Phonet., No. 18 (1971).
6. T. Baer, J. Alfonso and K. Honda, "Electromyography of the tongue muscle during vowels in/∂pvp/environment," Ann. Bull. RILP, 7, 7-18 (1988).
7. K. Miyawaki, "A prelimilary report on the electromyographic study of the activity of lingual muscles," Ann. Bull. RILP, 9, 91-106 (1975).
8. M. Kumada, M. Niitsu, S. Niimi and H. Hirose, "A study on the inner structure of the tongue in the production of the 5 Japanese vowels by tagging snapshort MRI," Ann. Bull. RILP, 26, 1-13 (1992).
9. S. Niimi, M. Kumada and M. Niitsu, "Functions of tongue related muscles during production of the five Japanese vowels," Ann. Bull. RILP, 28, 33-40 (1994).
10. M. Niitsu, M. Kumada, S. Niimi and Y. Itai, "Tongue movement during phonation: A rapid qualitative visualization using tagging snapshot MRI imaging," Ann. Bull. RILP, 26, 149-156 (1992).
11. J. Dang, S. Fujita, E. Murano and M. Stone, "Observation and simulation of Large-scale deformation of tongue," in ISSP06, Brazil (2006).
12. J. S. Perkell, "A physiologically-oriented model of tongue activity in speech production," PhD. Thesis, MIT (1974).
13. P. Perrier, H. Lavenbruck and Y. Payan, "Control of tongue movments in speech: The Equilibrium Point Hypohtesi perspective," J. Phonet., 24, 53-75 (1996).
14. Y. Payan and P. Perrier, "Synthesis of V-V sequences with a 2D biomechanical tongue model controled by the equilibrium point hypothesis," Speech Commun., 22, 185-205 (1997).
15. K. Honda, "Orgnization of tongue articulation for vowels," J. Phonet., 24, 39-52 (1996).
16. V. Sanguined, R. Laboissiere and D. Ostry, "A dymamic biomechanical model for neural control of speech production," J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 103, 1615-1627 (1998).
17. J. Dang and K. Honda, "A physiological model of a dynamic vocal tract for speech production," Acoust. Sci. & Tech., 22, 415-425 (2001).
18. J. Dang and K. Honda, "Construction and control of a physiological articulatory model," J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 115, 853-870 (2004).
19. Y. Kakita, O. Fujimura and K. Honda, "Compuation of mapping from muscular contraction patterns to formant patterns in vowel space," in Phonetic Linguistics, V. A. Fromkin, Ed. (Academic Press, New York, 1985), pp. 133-144.
20. R. Wilhelms-Tricarico, "Physiological modeling of speech production: Methods for modeling soft-tissue articulators," J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 97, 3085-3098 (1995).
21. S. Fujita and J. Dang, "A computational tongue model and its clinical application," Oral Sci. Int., 4, 97-109 (2007).
22. H. Takemoto, K. Kitamura, H. Nishimoto and K. Honda, "A method of tooth superimposition on MRI data for accurate measurement of vocal tract shape and dimensions," Acoust. Sci. & Tech., 25, 468-474 (2004).
23. H. Takemoto, "Morphological analysis of the tongue musculature for three dimensional modeling," J. Speech Hear. Res., 44, 95-107 (2001).
24. J. Warfel, The Head, Neck, and Trunk (Led & Febiger, Philadelphia and London, 1993).
25. S. Takano and K. Honda, "An MRI analysis of the extrinsic tongue muslces during vowel production," Speech Commun., 49, 49-58 (2007).
26. D. J. Ostry and K. G. Munhall, "Control of jaw orientation and position in mastication and speech," J. Neurophysiol., 71, 1528-1545 (1994).
27. J. Dang and K. Honda, "Estimation of vocal tract shape from sounds via a physiological articulatory model," J. Phonet., 30, 511-532 (2002).
28. K. Miyawaki, "A study on the muscularture of the human tongue," Ann. Bull. RILP, 8, 23-49 (1974).
29. W. R. Zemlin, Speech and Hearing Science: Anatomy and Physiology, 4 th ed. (Allyn & Bacon, Boston, 1998).
30. K. Shirai and M. Honda, "Estimation of articulatory parameters from speech sound," Trans. IEICE, 61, 409-416 (1978).
31. Q. Fang, S. Fujita and J. Dang, "Investigation of functions of tongue muscles for model control," Chin. J. Phonet. (in press).
32. E. Davis, A. Douglas and M. Stone, "A continuum mechanics representation of tongue motion in speech," in ICSLP1996, Philadelphia, USA (1996).
33. S. Takano, H. Matsuzaki and K. Motoki, "Investigation of the intrinsic tongue muscles for production of/i/using tagged cine-MRI and a four-cube FEM model," in Proc. 2nd Int. Symp. Biomechanics, Healthcare and Information Scienc, Kanazawa, Japan (2008).
34. J. S. Perkell, "Properties of the tongue help to define vowel categories: Hypotheses based on physiological-orineted modeling," J. Phonet., 24, 3-22 (1996).
35. G. Fant, Acoustic Theory of Speech Production (Moution & Co., The Hague, 1960).
36. K. N. Stevens, "The quantal nature of speech: Evidence frome articulaotry-acoustic data," in Human Communication: A Unified View (McGraw-Hill, New York, 1972).
37. K. N. Stevens, "On the quantal nature of speech," J. Phonet., 17, 3-45 (1989).