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Record W1998404442 · doi:10.1121/1.4831431

Speaking tongues are always braced

2013· article· en· W1998404442 on OpenAlexaff
Bryan Gick, Blake Allen, Ian Stavness, Ian Wilson

Bibliographic record

VenueThe Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 2013
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldPsychology
TopicPhonetics and Phonology Research
Canadian institutionsUniversity of SaskatchewanUniversity of British Columbia
Fundersnot available
KeywordsBracingTongueVocal tractBraceAcousticsAudiologyComputer scienceMedicineSpeech recognitionStructural engineeringEngineeringPhysics

Abstract

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Bracing the tongue against rigid vocal tract surfaces (i.e., teeth or palate) has been suggested to be important in facilitating certain kinds of tongue movements [Stone, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 81, 2207–2218 (1990)]. However, previous studies have generally sought bracing in only a narrow range of phonetic contexts, resulting in a widespread view of bracing as an occasional state, peculiar to specific sounds or sound combinations. The present study uses electropalatography (EPG) as well as ultrasound imaging and electromagnetic articulometry (EMA) to describe tongue bracing in continuous speech passages, finding that the tongue is almost constantly braced against lateral surfaces during running speech. Analysis of archival data from the male and female speakers of American English in the KayPENTAX Palatometer Database (Model 4333) shows that they brace the tongue continuously, except during a small percentage of low vowels, and during a larger percentage of instances of /l/. Additional measures using all three devices, as well as biomechanical simulations using ArtiSynth (www.artisynth.org), provide further insight, indicating that the tongue also braces against the central palate and/or lower jaw, and that bracing points slide anteroposteriorly across speech sounds. These results suggest that bracing is a constant and necessary aspect of tongue motor control.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.003
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.004
Threshold uncertainty score0.014

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.003
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0020.001
Open science0.0000.001
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0040.002

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.028
GPT teacher head0.321
Teacher spread0.293 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2013
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