The uninvited guest: Information's role in guiding the production of spontaneous speech (2000)
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| Venue: | in Proc. of the Crest Workshop on Models of Speech Production: Motor Planning and Articulatory Modeling, Kloster Seeon |
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@INPROCEEDINGS{Greenberg00theuninvited,
author = {Steven Greenberg and Eric Fosler-lussier},
title = {The uninvited guest: Information's role in guiding the production of spontaneous speech},
booktitle = {in Proc. of the Crest Workshop on Models of Speech Production: Motor Planning and Articulatory Modeling, Kloster Seeon},
year = {2000}
}
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Abstract
Statistical analysis of a large, phonetically transcribed corpus of spontaneous, American English dialogue suggests that an important factor governing the production of spoken language is the information associated with a given element (whether it be feature, phone, syllable, word or phrase), and that it is difficult to fully account for articulatory patterns (as inferred from the acoustic signal) purely on the basis of biomechanical factors. This entropic foundation of articulation is observed in terms of the probability of canonical pronunciation relative to the position within the syllable, as well as with respect to speaking rate and frequency of lexical occurrence. Such patterns of pronunciation variability imply that the phonetic realization (and hence production) of spoken language is highly dependent on the entropy associated with syllabic, lexical and phrasal contexts, and thus it is likely that the production of spontaneous speech is largely governed by mechanisms operating at an exceedingly high level of linguistic organization.
