✨Discovering dynamical laws for speech gestures ✨

➡️ I’m delighted to announce my new article out today in Cognitive Science, where I discover simple mathematical laws that govern articulatory control in speech.

🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

@cogscisociety.bsky.social

I wrote some software that visualises real-time nasalance for our @phoneticslab.bsky.social public engagement event this week!

We use two microphones to capture oral and nasal signals, separated by a baffle, and map each signal's amplitude to a visual representation of the face!

Our new paper on "Dimensionality Reduction in Lingual Articulation of Vowels" is now out in Language & Speech!

How should we quantify tongue shape in vowel production? We evaluate various measures and identify multi-dimensional measures for vowel analysis.

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Spring reading! Looking forward to (slowly) making it through the four volumes of “Foundational papers in complexity science” @sfiscience.bsky.social

Very proud of my PhD student Emily Gorman for passing her viva today - she wrote a great thesis on “Spatial and temporal variation in speech planning”.

Many thanks to the examiners Marianne Pouplier and Danielle Turton for an interesting and rigorous examination.

Congratulations Emily!

Acquiring tongue shape complexity in consonants with multiple articulations

➡️ New paper in Proc. ISAPh with @clrnance.bsky.social on Gaelic-English bilingual children’s development of lingual articulation.

🔗 www.isca-archive.org/isaph_2024/n...