Trading relations between tongue-body raising and lip rounding in production of the vowel /u/: a pilot "motor equivalence" study

• Published in: The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America Vol. 93; no. 5; p. 2948
• Main Authors: Perkell, J S, Matthies, M L, Svirsky, M A, Jordan, M I
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States 01.05.1993
• Subjects: Female; Humans; Lip; Male; Phonetics; Pilot Projects; Speech - physiology; Speech Acoustics; Speech Production Measurement; Tongue

Articulatory and acoustic data were used to explore the following hypothesis for the vowel /u/: The objective of articulatory movements is an acoustic goal; varying and reciprocal contributions of different articulators may help to constrain acoustic variation in achieving the goal. Previous articul...