@InProceedings{Höge2020_448,
author = {Harald Höge},
booktitle = {Studientexte zur Sprachkommunikation: Elektronische Sprachsignalverarbeitung 2020},
title = {The Nature of the Articulatory Code},
year = {2020},
editor = {Andreas Wendemuth and Ronald Böck and Ingo Siegert},
month = mar,
pages = {133--141},
publisher = {TUDpress, Dresden},
abstract = {The paper investigates the nature of the articulatory code (AC), which
contains the messages needed for cortical processing to perceive and produce
speech. The paper claims that the AC is a multi-item neural code identical for
both modalities - speech perception and speech production - and that the
transport of the AC between the short-term memory and the speech processing
areas is performed by coupled Ɵ/ɤ-oscillations. Due to the limitation given by the
state of the art in measuring cortical activities, the structure and content of the
AC is not deciphered yet. Using findings from research in phonetics and evolution
and using invasive as well as non-invasive measurements of cortical activities
of non-human and human primates, the paper is focused to verify the hypothesis,
that each message of the AC describes the structure and content of a Ɵsyllable.
The items of each message represent elementary articulatory gestures
composing syllables and are coded based on bundles of manner & place like articulatory
features. Further the items are generated by spike patterns of neurons
connected to complexes of neurons sensitive to articulatory features and are
transmitted by modulated ɤ-oscillations embedded in the Ɵ-oscillations. A final
proof derived from cortical measurement for the proposed AC is still missing.
Thus, there is a need for further cortical measurements.},
isbn = {978-3-959081-93-1},
issn = {0940-6832},
keywords = {Articulation},
url = {https://www.essv.de/pdf/2020_133_141.pdf},
}