Speech errors and optimization in speech planning

Collaborators:

SPArK members: Argyro Katsika

Collaborators: Stefanie Shattuck-Hufnagel, Mark Tiede

UCSB graduate research assistants: Sherry Chien, Jiyoung Jang

UCSB undergraduate student research assistants: Matt Gottesman, Hannah Green, Sophie Walker

This is a project currently under development in collaboration with Stefanie Shattuck-Hufnagel and Mark Tiede. This project uses speech errors as a window on speech planning and plan optimization processes.  This is because we view speech errors as inherently related to articulatory variability resulting from competition during planning. Motivation for this project came from an older project of ours, in which, together with Christine Mooshamer and Louis Goldstein, we found that planning for the phonemic content of an utterance and planning for the prosodic grouping of its words interact with each other, with aberrant speech emerging from competition between the two.

Products:

Previous aspects of this work were also presented at the following conferences:

  • Shattuck-Hufnagel, S., Bai, C., Tiede, M., Katsika, A., Pouplier, M. & Goldstein, L. 2013. A comparison of speech errors elicited by sentences and alternating repetitive tongue twisters, The 166th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, San Francisco, CA, 2-6 December 2013. JASA 135(4): 4166-4166.
  • Katsika, A., Shattuck-Hufnagel, S., Mooshammer, C., Tiede, M. & Goldstein, L. 2011. Effects of prosodic grouping and phonemic content on error patterns in the production of repeated strings, The International Seminar on Speech Production (ISSP) 2011, Montreal, Canada, 20-23 June 2011.