Abstract

Electromagnetic articulography (EMA) measurements of the movements of articulator flesh points have predominantly been used to investigate kinematics of individual points and/or coordinative phasing between them. Such limited use of EMA data is in fact wasteful of information. In this preliminary report we introduce two representations of EMA data: one is a representation of lingual configuration derived from three individual flesh points on the tongue, and the other is a representation of the vocal tract configuration information based on a lower-dimensional representation of Euclidean distances between EMA articulatory points. The motivation is to maximize the use of information in the original EMA data and measurements in a way that allows for the representation of tongue shaping and vocal tract configuration, thereby maximizing the use of information available from EMA and basic EMA measurements …

Date

April 1, 2016

Authors

Sungbok Lee, Dani Byrd, Shrikanth Narayanan

Journal

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volume

139

Issue

4_Supplement

Pages

2221-2221

Publisher

Acoustical Society of America