A biomechanical model of cardinal vowel production: Muscle activations and the impact of gravity on tongue positioning

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 126, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 2033-2051

  Buchaillard, St́phanie ^a   Perrier, Pascal ^a   Payan, Yohan ^b  

^a GRENOBLE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (France)

^b LABORATOIRE TIMC IMAG   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3-D MODELING; ACOUSTIC MODEL; BIOMECHANICAL MODEL; ELECTROMYOGRAPHIC; EQUILIBRIUM POINT HYPOTHESIS; FRONT VOWELS; FUNCTIONAL MODEL; GENIOGLOSSUS; LITERATURE DATA; MOTOR COMMANDS; MUSCLE ACTIVATION; MUSCLE FORCE; ORAL CAVITY; SATURATION EFFECTS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL (3D); VOWEL PRODUCTION;

BIOMECHANICS; CHEMICAL ACTIVATION; FLOORS; MOTORS; MUSCLE;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BIOMECHANICS; BODY POSTURE; CINERADIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ELECTROPALATOGRAPHY; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; GRAVITY; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOTOR CONTROL; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FORCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; SPEECH ARTICULATION; TONGUE; VOWEL;

ALGORITHMS; BIOMECHANICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEEDBACK, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOUTH; MUSCLE STRENGTH; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PHONATION; PHONETICS; POSTURE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REFLEX; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; TIME FACTORS; TONGUE;

EID: 70350496205     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3204306     Document Type: Article

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