Temporal organization of complex onsets and codas in American English: Testing the predictions of a gestural coupling model

Motor Control

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 380-407

  Marin, Stefania ^a   Pouplier, Marianne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Articulatory timing; c center; Gestural coupling; Motor control in speech production; Syllable organization

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONSONANT; ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE; GESTURE; HUMAN; KINEMATICS; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MODEL; ORGANIZATION; PREDICTION; ADULT; BIOMECHANICS; FEMALE; JAW; LANGUAGE; LIP; MALE; PHONETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; SOUND DETECTION; SPEECH; SPEECH ANALYSIS; TONGUE; VOCAL CORD;

ADULT; BIOMECHANICAL PHENOMENA; FEMALE; GESTURES; HUMANS; JAW; LANGUAGE; LIP; MALE; PHONETICS; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH; SPEECH ARTICULATION TESTS; TONGUE; VOCAL CORDS;

EID: 77956407737     PISSN: 10871640     EISSN: 15432696     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1123/mcj.14.3.380     Document Type: Article

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