Articulatory modelling of coronal stop contrasts in Wubuy

Michael Proctor; Rikke Louise Bundgaard-Nielsen; Catherine Best; Louis Goldstein; Christian Kroos; Mark Harvey

Articulatory modelling of coronal stop contrasts in Wubuy

Michael Proctor, Rikke Louise Bundgaard-Nielsen, Catherine Best, Louis Goldstein, Christian Kroos, Mark Harvey

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Like many Australian languages, Wubuy (aka Nunggubuyu) uses four contrastive coronal stops. The phonological basis of this contrast is not well understood, as it is not known to what extent phonological primitives are grounded in the phonetic domain. We introduce a preliminary gestural computational model of Wubuy phonology being developed as an extension of the Task Dynamics Application (TaDA: [1, 2]). Coronal stops are modeled as recurrent dynamic structures of coordinative tongue tip and tongue body gestures, contrasting in constriction degree and location. Articulatory kinematics produced by gestural models are qualitatively compared with EMA data obtained from a Wubuy speaker producing the same segments. The implications of these experiments for theories of phonological representation are discussed.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 13th Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology, 14-16 December 2010, Melbourne, Australia
Publisher	ASSTA
Pages	90-93
Number of pages	4
ISBN (Print)	9780958194631
Publication status	Published - 2010
Event	Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology - Duration: 3 Dec 2012 → …

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Conference	Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology
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Nunggubuyu language
articulatory phonology

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Proctor, M, Bundgaard-Nielsen, RL, Best, C, Goldstein, L, Kroos, C & Harvey, M 2010, Articulatory modelling of coronal stop contrasts in Wubuy. in Proceedings of the 13th Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology, 14-16 December 2010, Melbourne, Australia. ASSTA, pp. 90-93, Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology, 3/12/12.

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