Automatic Phonetic Transcription of Non-Prompted Speech

A reliable method for automatic phonetic transcription of non− prompted German speech has been developed at th

A mathematical model of speech aerodynamics

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Experimental Phonology

Proceedings of the Thirteenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1987), pp. 207-22

The Story of [w]: An Exercise in the Phonetic Explanation for Sound Patterns

Proceedings of the 3rd Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1977), pp. 577-59

Phonetic explanations for sound patterns. Implications for grammars of competence

Phonological grammars try to represent speakers ’ knowledge so that the ‘natural’ behavior of speech sounds becomes self-evident. Phonetic models have the same goals but have no psychological pretensions. Phonetic models succeed in explaining the natural behavior of speech, whereas phonological representations largely fail. The ‘phonetic naturalness ’ requirement in phonological grammars should be re-examined and probably abandoned