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Syllable structure and stress effects on articulatory coordination
| Title: | Syllable structure and stress effects on articulatory coordination. |
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| Name(s): |
Gleason, Philip Lawrence Florida Atlantic University, Degree Grantor Charles E. Schmidt College of Science Center for Complex Systems and Brain Sciences |
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| Type of Resource: | text | |
| Genre: | Electronic Thesis Or Dissertation | |
| Issuance: | monographic | |
| Date Issued: | 1999 | |
| Publisher: | Florida Atlantic University | |
| Place of Publication: | Boca Raton, Fla. | |
| Physical Form: | application/pdf | |
| Extent: | 110 p. | |
| Language(s): | English | |
| Summary: | Two experiments are reported, both dealing with syllable affiliation of a consonant. The first experiment extends the work of Tuller and Kelso (1990) and was designed to capture the signatures of loss of stability in a dynamical system (enhanced fluctuations and critical slowing). An Articulograph device (Carstens Medizinelektronik GmbH.) was used to track the movements of the tongue tip, the lower lip, and the jaw in the midsagittal plane while the subjects spoke a VCC word in time to an auditory metronome at a slowly increasing rate. A clear transition occurred in the phonetics (VCC -> CVC) as judged by a phonetically trained listener, and the transition in phonetics corresponded to a change in the relative phase between the tongue tip and the lower lip and between the tongue tip and jaw. The transition was accompanied by both enhanced fluctuations and critical slowing for subjects who complied with the metronome. The second experiment examined syllable affiliation in natural English phrases with contrasting metrical structures. The phonemes /s/, /t/ and /k/, were used, and the tongue tip, tongue blade, and jaw were recorded by the Articulograph device. Consistent relative timing of the consonant movement in relation to vowel movement was observed, thus supporting the position that syllable affiliation is expressed as distinct phase values in natural speech as well as reiterated speech. In addition, the evidence supports the view that the syllable is an organizational unit of speech in English. | |
| Identifier: | 9780599211469 (isbn), 12591 (digitool), FADT12591 (IID), fau:9477 (fedora) | |
| Collection: | FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection | |
| Note(s): |
Adviser: Betty Tuller. Thesis (Ph.D.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1999. |
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| Subject(s): |
Language, Linguistics Psychology, Psychobiology Psychology, Experimental Psychology, Personality |
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| Held by: | Florida Atlantic University Libraries | |
| Persistent Link to This Record: | http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/12591 | |
| Sublocation: | Digital Library | |
| Use and Reproduction: | Copyright © is held by the author, with permission granted to Florida Atlantic University to digitize, archive and distribute this item for non-profit research and educational purposes. Any reuse of this item in excess of fair use or other copyright exemptions requires permission of the copyright holder. | |
| Use and Reproduction: | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ | |
| Host Institution: | FAU | |
| Is Part of Series: | Florida Atlantic University Digital Library Collections. |
