BibTeX

@article{wade/etal:2010,
  author = {Travis Wade and Grzegorz Dogil and Hinrich Sch{ü}tze and Michael
	Walsh and Bernd M{ö}bius},
  title = {Syllable frequency effects in a context-sensitive segment production
	model},
  journal = {Journal of Phonetics},
  year = {2010},
  volume = {38},
  pages = {227-239},
  number = {2},
  abstract = { In this study we describe a new model of how phonetic knowledge guides
	speech production. In the Context Sequence model, target acoustic
	patterns are determined based on selection of previously heard or
	produced sounds from a memory store. Since signals in the memory
	correspond to long stretches of continuous speech, individual speech
	sounds always appear in a larger context. A key property of the model
	is that the selection of exemplars for production is weighted by
	the similarity of the contexts in which they originally occurred
	to the current production context. In two simulations based on realistic
	amplitude envelope data extracted from a large single-speaker production
	corpus, we demonstrate that (1) optimal selection of context-appropriate
	segment-level exemplars requires consideration of about 0.5 s of
	context material preceding and following exemplars and (2) context-dependent
	production at this low level may be responsible for a range of frequency
	effects that have previously been assumed to involve word, syllable,
	and other higher levels of organization.},
  url = {http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6WKT-4YVG80R-2/2/0e6e2c74dc9eb8449cb38ff406f37982}
}