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An articulatory perspective on the locus equation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 April 1998

Björn Lindblom
Affiliation:
Department of Linguistics, Stockholm University, S-10691 Stockholm, [email protected]

Abstract

Using an articulatory model we show that locus equations make special use of the phonetic space of possible locus patterns. There is nothing articulatorily inevitable about their linearity or slope- intercept characteristics. Nonetheless, articulatory factors do play an important role in the origin of simulated locus equations, but they cannot, by themselves, provide complete explanations for the observed facts. As in other domains, there is interaction between perceptual and motor factors.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Copyright
© 1998 Cambridge University Press

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