Automatic analysis of slips of the tongue: Insights into the cognitive architecture of speech production

Cognition
Matthew GoldrickJeremy Needle

Abstract

Traces of the cognitive mechanisms underlying speaking can be found within subtle variations in how we pronounce sounds. While speech errors have traditionally been seen as categorical substitutions of one sound for another, acoustic/articulatory analyses show they partially reflect the intended sound. When "pig" is mispronounced as "big," the resulting /b/ sound differs from correct productions of "big," moving towards intended "pig"-revealing the role of graded sound representations in speech production. Investigating the origins of such phenomena requires detailed estimation of speech sound distributions; this has been hampered by reliance on subjective, labor-intensive manual annotation. Computational methods can address these issues by providing for objective, automatic measurements. We develop a novel high-precision computational approach, based on a set of machine learning algorithms, for measurement of elicited speech. The algorithms are trained on existing manually labeled data to detect and locate linguistically relevant acoustic properties with high accuracy. Our approach is robust, is designed to handle mis-productions, and overall matches the performance of expert coders. It allows us to analyze a very large datase...Continue Reading

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Feb 6, 2018·Language, Cognition and Neuroscience·Angela FinkMatthew Goldrick
Jul 6, 2019·International Journal of Speech-language Pathology·Esteban BuzJoseph Keshet
Jul 6, 2019·International Journal of Speech-language Pathology·Joseph Keshet
Jan 29, 2021·Cognition·Kevin Tang, Jason A Shaw
Dec 28, 2021·Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics·Heejin Kim, Naomi Gurevich

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