Serial Control of Phonology in Speech Production: A Hierarchical Model

Janet I. Vousden, Gordon D A Brown, Trevor A. Harley

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Abstract

A dynamic oscillator-based model of the sequencing of phonemes in speech production (OSCAR) is described. An analysis of phoneme movement errors (anticipations, perseverations, and exchanges) from a large naturalistic speech error corpus provides a new set of data suitable for quantitative modeling and is used to derive a set of constraints that any speech-production model must address. The new computational model is shown to account for error type proportions, movement error distance gradients, the syllable-position effect, and phonological similarity effects. The model provides an alternative to frame-based accounts, serial buffer accounts, and associative chaining theories of serial order processing in speech.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)101-175
Number of pages75
JournalApplied Cognitive Psychology
Volume41
Issue number2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Sept 2000
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Model
  • Oscillators
  • Speech errors
  • Speech production

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
  • Linguistics and Language

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