Coarticulation

Entrance requirements

Course description

Course credits

Requirements

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 (approx. 15 pages, deadlines see below). The topic of the paper need not be identical or overlap with the topic of your oral presentation.

Specific instructions for term papers and the use of LMM-based generative AI tools (e.g., ChatGPT or similar): It is your responsibility to verify any information that you include in the term paper with respect to correctness and reliability of the source. LLM tools generate text based on probabilities without guaranteeing the veracity of information. This also pertains to bibliographic sources, which need to be verified. If you use such tools in the process of writing your term paper, you must indicate this in the declaration that the paper is your own academic work. You must also provide the prompts you used. See UdS guidelines (page 7).

Deadlines

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

Schedule

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}
}

@InProceedings{Braun/Mobius:2023,
  author={Angelika Braun and Bernd M\"{o}bius},
  title={{Armando de Lacerda and his contemporaries: Paul Menzerath}},
  year=2023,
  booktitle={Proc. Fifth International Workshop on the History of Speech Communication Research (HSCR 2022, Porto)},
  pages={17--28},
  doi={10.21437/HSCR.2022-2}
}

@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}
}