Natural language research announcements

[Jennifer Cole <jscole AT uiuc.edu>]

Linguistics Department Seminar
WHEN: Thursday, February 16, 4:00 p.m.
WHERE: Lucy Ellis Lounge, FLB (1st floor, behind elevators)

Speaker: Khalil Iskarous, Ph.D., Research Scientist, Haskins Laboratories
Title: Linguistic control of the tongue in speech production

Abstract:
The jaw is a crucial articulator in speech production. Its motion affects the 
tongue and lips, making it an essential contributor to many of the vocalic 
and consonantal contrasts in the world's languages. The jaw has also been 
shown to be essential to the physical embodiment of the syllable and 
prominence. The question I address in this talk is how competing linguistic 
tasks influence jaw motion. X-ray microbeam data will be used to argue that 
jaw motion is best seen as the output of a system of competing dynamical 
systems of contrastive phonological gestures. Regarding the 
phonetics/phonology interface, the claim will be that the distance between 
the two is not very great if we regard the contrastive units of phonology to 
be dynamic in nature.

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