Volume : VII, Issue : I, January - 2018

A General Explanation of How and Why Articulation Modeling Works: Illustrated by an Analysis of a Brief Sample of Fluent Speech Recorded at 55 fps in rtMRI

John W. Oller

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This paper looks into the amazing depth of the sort of articulation that we take for granted in our most mundane and ordinary uses of language. It explores why and how articulation modeling is necessary to language acquisition and it shows how cross–modal transfer from vision, and motoric information, for example, can inform speech perception and production. It also shows how such information can be used in therapeutic interventions. As a process, articulation is most naturally, and most appropriately, associated with speech, but it also applies with essentially the same pragmatic value to writing, typing, reading written symbols, reasoning, thinking, and to planning and producing complex sequences of actions or of signs in general. Examined closely, there are no meaningful sequences of signs representing corresponding arrangements of entities, events, relations, or combinations of them that are not articulated in a manner analogous to the articulation of sequences in everyday speech. The spoken sequence used in this paper to assess the foregoing assertions is a recorded message welcoming visitors to the Science Gallery of the Max Planck Society in the Gendarmenmarkt of Berlin. The “Welcome Message” to be examined was recorded at the Max Planck Institute of Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen, Germany, at approximately 55 fps with real–time Magnetic Resonance Images (rtMRI), adjusted to about 60 fps with Adobe Premier. The fluent sequence of articulations can be roughly transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [wÉ›lkÉ™mtuðɨsajntsÉ¡ælɹijÉ™vðɨmæksplæÅ‹ksosajɨtij]. To show the importance of modeling, I also refer to the extreme case of “locked–in syndrome” as experienced by Victoria Arlen who lost all of her capacity to move her body or articulators and yet against all odds recovered enough to make it to the semi–final round on Dancing With the Stars in the 2017 season  ADDIN ZOTERO_ITEM CSL_CITATION {"citationID":"b9okaMjC","properties":{"formattedCitation":"{rtf (uc0u8220{}Victoria Arlen | Dancing with the Stars,uc0u8221{} 2017)}","plainCitation":"(“Victoria Arlen | Dancing with the Stars,” 2017)"},"citationItems":[{"id":6246,"uris":["http://zotero.org/users/1519582/items/IAIZJ26E"],"uri":["http://zotero.org/users/1519582/items/IAIZJ26E"],"itemData":{"id":6246,"type":"webpage","title":"Victoria Arlen | Dancing with the Stars","container–title":"ABC","abstract":"Get to know Victoria Arlen from Dancing with the Stars. Read the official ABC bio, show quotes and learn about the role at ABC TV","URL":"https://abc.go.com/shows/dancing–with–the–stars/cast/victoria–arlen","issued":{"date–parts":[["2017"]]},"accessed":{"date–parts":[["2017",12,6]]}}}],"schema":"https://github.com/citation–style–language/schema/raw/master/csl–citation.json"} (“Victoria Arlen|Dancing with the Stars,” 2017).

 

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John W. Oller, A General Explanation of How and Why Articulation Modeling Works: Illustrated by an Analysis of a Brief Sample of Fluent Speech Recorded at 55 fps in rtMRI, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH : Volume-7 | Issue-1 | January-2018

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