ISCA Archive SpeechProsody 2014
ISCA Archive SpeechProsody 2014

Metrical Structure and Jaw Displacement: An Exploration

Donna Erickson, Shigeto Kawahara, J.C. Williams, Jeff Moore, Atsuo Suemitsu, Yoshiho Shibuya

The current experiment using EMA shows that the amount of jaw displacementor mandible movement may reflect the metrical organization of English sentences. The experiment also supports F1 as a reliable acoustic correlate of jaw displacement, hence metrical organization, but also demonstrates that F0 does not have a similar relationship to mandible movement.