Coarticulation

Summer 2019, Möbius, LSF/HIS #114411

Seminar
M.Sc. Language Science and Technology
M.Sc. Language and Communication Technologies
B.Sc. Computerlinguistik

Wed 16:00-17:30, C7.2/5.09

Entrance requirements

Some background in Phonetics and Speech Science (strongly recommended).

Course description

The decade-long search for invariance in units of speech and their representations has revealed that invariance is elusive and variability is pervasive. However, variability is not random but, for the most part, lawful. One of the most important factors affecting the variability of speech is coarticulation. The term covers a range of contextual effects on a target unit of speech, including the immediate segmental context, the syllable structure, the local prosodic structure, and other, higher-level structural effects. In this seminar, papers addressing the detection, description, modeling, and theoretical explanation of coarticulatory effects will be presented and discussed, with respect to both their phonological and phonetic assumptions and their implementation and application to speech technology systems (e.g., speech synthesis, speech recognition). Participants will read, present, and discuss selected papers.

Course credits

7 CP (presentation and paper) or 4 CP (presentation only).
Active participation on a regular basis required.

Requirements

Participation: You are expected to be physically present throughout the seminar and take part in the discussion.
You may miss maximally one class without formal consequences. Please send me an email message in this case, just saying that you will not take part, no explanation required. In case you cannot make it a second or third time, you have to write and submit a summary of the papers to be read (minimum one page per paper).

Reading: For each class, you are required to read one or two papers (see Schedule). For each paper, please send me one question that you want to be answered or discussed in class (on the day preceding the class, before midnight).

Presentation: An oral presentation of 30-45 minutes, typically based on a core paper and maybe some complementary reading. Please contact me (1) when you have been assigned a topic/paper and want to start working on it; (2) when you have a pre-final draft version of the presentation. After your presentation I will provide feedback to you. The final version of your slides will be posted on the course homepage.

Term Paper: MSc students opting for the 7 CP version have to write a term paper (15-20 pages, deadlines see below). The topic of the paper need not be identical or overlap with the topic of your oral presentation.

Oral Exam: If you decide to take an oral exam, we will together select 2 topics, which are disjoint from the topics of your presentation and term paper. Exam duration is 15-20 minutes.

Deadlines

Exam registration: July 3, 2019
Term paper: September 30, 2019

Contact:
  Prof. Dr. Bernd Möbius
  Email
  C7.2/4.10
  0681/302-4500


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Schedule

Date Topic / Papers Slides / Questions Presented by
17.04. Planning and organization, paper assignment Möbius
24.04. Kühnert/Nolan:1997/1999 - [PDF]
Recasens:2018 - [PDF]
Möbius / all
08.05. Farnetani/Recasens:2010 - [PDF]
Johnson:2004 - [PDF]
slides
slides
Georgis
Neuerburg
29.05. Öhman:1966 - [PDF]
Viswanathan/etal:2010 - [PDF]
slides
slides
Boy
Altmeyer
05.06. Broad/Clermont:2014 - [PDF]
Salverda/etal:2014 - [PDF]
slides
 
Volz
Souridi
19.06. Schatz/etal:2017 - [PDF]
Iskarous/etal:2013 - [PDF]
Vrazitulis
Sommer
10.07. Bell/etal:2003 - [PDF]
Prom-on/etal:2009 - [PDF]
 
slides
Steuer
Watty
17.07. Turnbull/etal:2018 - [PDF]
Whang:2018 - [PDF]
slides
 
Posner
Borisenkov

Literature

[BACH] = suitable for bachelor students

@Article{	  Bell/etal:2003,
  author	= {Bell, Alan and Jurafsky, Dan and Fosler-Lussier, Eric and
		  Girand, Cynthia and Gregory, Michelle and Gildea, Daniel},
  title		= {Effects of disfluencies, predictability, and utterance
		  position on word form variation in {English} conversation},
  journal	= {Journal of the Acoustical Society of America},
  year		= 2003,
  volume	= 113,
  pages		= {1001--1024}
}

@Article{	  Broad/Clermont:2014,
  author	= {Broad, David~J. and Clermont, Frantz},
  title		= {A method for analyzing the coarticulated {CV} and {VC}
		  components of vowel-formant trajectories in {CVC}
		  syllables},
  journal	= {Journal of Phonetics},
  year		= 2014,
  volume	= 47,
  pages		= {47--80}
}

@InCollection{	  Farnetani/Recasens:1999,
  author	= {Farnetani, Edda and Recasens, Daniel},
  title		= {Coarticulation models in recent speech production
		  theories},
  booktitle	= {Coarticulation: Theory, Data and Techniques},
  pages		= {31--68},
  publisher	= {Cambridge University Press},
  year		= 1999,
  editor	= {Hardcastle, William~J. and Hewlett, Nigel},
  address	= {Cambridge, UK}
}

@InCollection{	  Farnetani/Recasens:2010,
  author	= {Farnetani, Edda and Recasens, Daniel},
  title		= {Coarticulation and connected speech processes},
  booktitle	= {The Handbook of Phonetic Sciences},
  editor	= {Hardcastle, William J. and Laver, John},
  publisher	= {Blackwell},
  edition	= {2nd},
  year		= 2010,
  series	= {Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics},
  address	= {Oxford},
  pages		= {316--352}
}
[BACH]

@Book{		  Hardcastle/Hewlett:2000,
  editor	= {Hardcastle, William~J. and Hewlett, Nigel},
  title		= {Coarticulation: Theory, Data and Techniques},
  publisher	= {Cambridge University Press},
  year		= 2000,
  address	= {Cambridge, UK}
}

@Article{Iskarous/etal:2013,
  author = 	 {Iskarous, Khalil and Mooshammer, Christine and
                  Hoole, Phil and Recasens, Daniel and Shadle,
                  Christine~H. and Saltzman, Elliot and Whalen, Doug~H.},
  title = 	 {The coarticulation/invariance scale: Mutual
                  information as a measure of coarticulation
                  resistance, motor synergy, and articulatory invariance},
  journal = 	 {Journal of the Acoustical Society of America},
  year = 	 2013,
  volume = 	 134,
  number = 	 2,
  pages = 	 {1271--1282}
}

@InCollection{	  Johnson:2004,
  author	= {Johnson, Keith},
  title		= {Massive reduction in conversational {American English}},
  booktitle	= {Spontaneous Speech: Data and Analysis. Proceedings of the
		  1st Session of the 10th International Symposium},
  pages		= {29--54},
  publisher	= {The National International Institute for Japanese
		  Language},
  year		= 2004,
  editor	= {Yoneyama, K. and Maekawa, K.},
  address	= {Tokyo}
}
[BACH]

@Article{	  Kuhnert/Nolan:1997,
  author	= {K{\"u}hnert, Barbara and Nolan, Francis},
  title		= {The origin of coarticulation},
  journal	= {Forschungsberichte des Instituts f{\"u}r Phonetik und
		  Sprachliche Kommunikation (M{\"u}nchen), FIPKM},
  year		= 1997,
  volume	= 35,
  pages		= {61--75}
}

@InCollection{	  Kuhnert/Nolan:1999,
  author	= {K{\"u}hnert, Barbara and Nolan, Francis},
  title		= {The origin of coarticulation},
  booktitle	= {Coarticulation: Theory, Data and Techniques},
  pages		= {7--30},
  publisher	= {Cambridge University Press},
  year		= 1999,
  editor	= {Hardcastle, William~J. and Hewlett, Nigel}
}

@Book{		  Menzerath/Lacerda:1933,
  author	= {Menzerath, Paul and de Lacerda, A.},
  title		= {Koartikulation, {S}teuerung und {L}autabgrenzung},
  year		= 1933,
  publisher	= {D{\"u}mmler},
  address	= {Berlin; Bonn},
  annote	= {coarticulation}
}

@Article{	  Ohman:1966,
  author	= {{\"O}hman, Sven E. G.},
  title		= {Coarticulation in {VCV} utterances: spectrographic
		  measurements},
  journal	= {Journal of the Acoustical Society of America},
  year		= 1966,
  volume	= 39,
  pages		= {151--168}
}
[BACH]

@Article{	  Prom-on/etal:2009,
  author	= {Prom-on, Santitham and Xu, Yi and Thipakorn, Bundit},
  title		= {Modeling tone and intonation in {Mandarin} and {English}
		  as a process of target approximation},
  journal	= {Journal of the Acoustical Society of America},
  year		= 2009,
  volume	= 125,
  number	= 1,
  pages		= {405--424}
}
[BACH]

@InCollection{	  Recasens:1999,
  author	= {Recasens, Daniel},
  title		= {Acoustic analysis},
  booktitle	= {Coarticulation: Theory, Data and Techniques},
  pages		= {322--336},
  publisher	= {Cambridge University Press},
  year		= 1999,
  editor	= {Hardcastle, William~J. and Hewlett, Nigel},
  address	= {Cambridge, UK}
}

@Article{Recasens:2018,
  author = 	 {Recasens, Daniel},
  title = 	 {Coarticulation},
  journal = 	 {Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Linguistics},
  year = 	 2018,
  doi = 	 {10.1093/acrefore/9780199384655.013.416},
  pages = 	 {1--22}
}

@Article{	  Salverda/etal:2014,
  author	= {Salverda, Anne Pier and Kleinschmidt, Dave and Tanenhaus,
		  Michael~K.},
  title		= {Immediate effects of anticipatory coarticulation in
		  spoken-word recognition},
  journal	= {Journal of Memory and Language},
  year		= 2014,
  volume	= 71,
  pages		= {145--163}
}

@InProceedings{Schatz/etal:2017,
  author = 	 {Schatz, Thomas and Turnbull, Rory and Bach, Francis
                  and Dupoux, Emmanuel},
  title = 	 {A quantitative measure of the impact of
                  coarticulation on phone discriminability},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of Interspeech 2017 (Stockholm)},
  year = 	 2017,
  pages = 	 {3033--3037}
}
[BACH]

@Article{Turnbull/etal:2018,
  author = 	 {Turnbull, Rory and Seyfarth, Scott and Hume,
                  Elizabeth and Jaeger, T.~Florian},
  title = 	 {Nasal place assimilation trades off inferrability of
                  both target and trigger words},
  journal = 	 {Laboratory Phonology},
  year = 	 2018,
  volume = 	 9,
  number = 	 1,
  pages = 	 {1--27},
  doi = 	 {https://doi.org/10.5334/labphon.119}
}

@Article{	  Viswanathan/etal:2010,
  author	= {Viswanathan, Navin and Magnuson, James~S. and Fowler,
		  Carol~A.},
  title		= {Compensation for coarticulation: Disentangling auditory
		  and gestural theories of perception of coarticulatory
		  effects in speech},
  journal	= {Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perceptio and
		  Performance},
  year		= 2010,
  volume	= 36,
  number	= 4,
  pages		= {1005--1015}
}

@Article{Whang:2018,
  author = 	 {Whang, James},
  title = 	 {Recoverability-driven coarticulation: Acoustic
                  evidence from {Japanese} high vowel devoicing},
  journal = 	 {Journal of the Acoustical Society of America},
  year = 	 2018,
  volume = 	 143,
  number = 	 2,
  pages = 	 {1159--1172}
}

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