Two oral presentations contained the following theoretical overview of speech motor control along with examples of supporting data from studies of articulatory-to-acoustic motor equivalence and changes in the hearing status of cochlear implant and NF2 patients. Much of the information content in speech is conveyed by phonemic mechanisms, which consist of neuro-muscular synergisms that achieve segmental articulatory and acoustic goals. Some of the goals are determined by quantal (nonlinear) relations between articulation and sound.
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