Speech motor control

The development of new measurement techniques and improved models of the larynx and the vocal tract have significantly advanced our understanding of speech motor control. Recently, several groups have been using electromagnetic transduction techniques to record tongue movements. The laryngeal vibrations have been modeled and studied using techniques from non-linear dynamics. Computational models of supraglottal movements have been proposed and tested. A connectionist model that synthesizes the results obtained from observing the effects of variations in rate, stress, and phonetic context on speech kinematics has recently been proposed.