Area functions and articulatory modeling as a tool for investigating the articulatory, acoustic and perceptual properties of sounds across languages

Jacqueline Vaissière (1)

1 LPP - LPP - Laboratoire de Phonétique et Phonologie - UMR 7018

This paper illustrates the suitability of Maeda's articulatory model as a tool for exploring the relation between articulatory and acoustic properties in the realization of phonological contrasts. Specific hypotheses concerning the phonetics of French are tested in a cross-linguistic perspective. Accessorily, a new type of transcription is proposed, using short-hand label for the main spectral prominence.

Mots clés: acoustic theory of speech production; IPA; perturbation theory; nasal consonant; front vowels; phonetics; Maeda's articulatory model; phonological contrasts; French

Domaines: Linguistique

Jacqueline Vaissière. Area functions and articulatory modeling as a tool for investigating the articulatory, acoustic and perceptual properties of sounds across languages. M.J. Solé, P. S. Beddor, and M. Ohala. Experimental Approaches to Phonology,, Oxford: OUP, pp.54-71, 2007. ⟨halshs-00185478⟩