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First Published in 1986. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
List of contents
1. Peter W. Jusczyk: Toward a Model of the Development of Speech Perception 2. Charles A. Ferguson: Discovering Sound Units and Constructing Sound Systems: It's Child's Play 3. Michael Studdert-Kennedy: Sources of Variability in Early Speech Development 4. Philip Lieberman: On the Genetic Basis of Linguistic Variation 5. Mats Blomberg, Rolf Carlson, Kjell Elenius, and Bjorn Granstrom: Auditory Models as Front Ends in Speech Recognition Systems 6. Carol A. Fowler and Mary R. Smith: Speech Perception as Vector Analysis: An Approach to the Problem of In variance and Segmentation 7. Louis C. W. Pols: Variation and Interaction in Speech 8. Bertrand Delgutte: Analysis of French Stop Consonants Using a Model of the Peripheral Auditory System 9. Shiela E. Blumstein: On Acoustic Invariance in Speech 10. James H. Abbs: Invariance and Variability in Speech Production: A Distinction Between Linguistic Intent and Its Neuromotor Implementation 11. Osamu Fujimura: Relative lnvariance of Articulatory Movements: An Iceberg Model 12 Tuller, and J. A. Scott Kelso: Temporal lnvariance in the Production of Speech 13. Klaus J. Kohler: Invariance and Variability in Speech Timing: From Utterance to Segment 14. Dennis Klatt: Problem of Variability in S11eech Recognition and in Models of Speech Perception 15. Ronald Cole, Richard M. Stern and Moshe J. Lasry: Performing Fine Phonetic Distinctions: Templates versus Features16. John N. Holmes: Normalization and Vowel Perception17. Jeffrey Elman, and John McClelland: Exploiting Lawful Variability in the Speech Wave 22. Gunnar Fant: Features-Fiction and Facts 23. Bjorn Lindblom: On the Origin and Purpose of Discreteness and lnvariance in Sound Patterns 24. Antonie Cohen: Invariance and Variability of Words in the Speech Chain 25. Robert F. Port: In variance in Phonetics
About the author
Joseph S. Perkell and Dennis H. Klatt, both Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Summary
First published in 1986. The important implications of speech variability for the future of speech related technology, in combination with the multifaceted debate about invariance among speech scientists, make this a most appropriate time to evaluate the state our knowledge in this area. On October 8-10, 1983 researchers from the fields of production, perception, acoustics, pathology, psychology, linguistics, language acquisition, synthesis and recognition met at a. symposium at M.I.T. on invariance and variability of speech processes. This volume is the Proceedings of the symposium. Each chapter of the book consists of a focus paper followed by some comments.
