@InProceedings{Serrurier2020_449,
author = {Antoine Serrurier and Christiane Neuschaefer-Rube},
booktitle = {Studientexte zur Sprachkommunikation: Elektronische Sprachsignalverarbeitung 2020},
title = {Comparison of the French and German articulatory spaces},
year = {2020},
editor = {Andreas Wendemuth and Ronald Böck and Ingo Siegert},
month = mar,
pages = {141--148},
publisher = {TUDpress, Dresden},
abstract = {Comparing languages in terms of articulations remains an arduous task
due to the inherent different phonetic repertoires and the large inter-speaker variability.
This study proposes a model-based approach to compare the articulatory spaces
of French (FR) and German (DE) and to explore the discrepancy between the range
of articulations of these languages. The approach consists in building articulatory
models for the two languages and to reconstruct representative articulations of these
languages by the two models. The accuracy of the reconstructions of the FR articulations
by the FR model represents the baseline and the gap with the accuracy of the
reconstructions of the same FR articulations by the DE model represents the deficit
of the DE model to reconstruct the FR articulations, and vice versa. Static midsagittal
Magnetic Resonance Images of 11 FR and 5 DE speaker sustaining articulations representative
of their respective phonetic repertoire have been considered and the articulator
contours manually segmented and aligned. After normalising the data over the
speakers, individual articulator-based linear articulatory models have been derived
and pairwise cross-reconstructions of each speaker data by each model performed.
Comparative analyses of the performance of the cross-reconstructions tend to show a
similar articulatory space for the two languages, suggesting that the articulatory degrees
of freedom of FR speakers are enough to produce DE articulations and vice
versa. However, the large inter-speaker variability highlighted during analysis suggests
that the discrepancy between the speakers’ individual strategies might be larger
than the discrepancy between the languages’ articulatory spaces.},
isbn = {978-3-959081-93-1},
issn = {0940-6832},
keywords = {Articulation},
url = {https://www.essv.de/pdf/pdf/2020_141_148.pdf},
}