Kn. Stevens, CRITIQUE - ARTICULATORY ACOUSTIC RELATIONS AND THEIR ROLE IN SPEECH-PERCEPTION, The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 99(3), 1996, pp. 1693-1694
These remarks are in response to ''Role of articulation in speech perc
eption: Clues from production,'' by Bjorn Lindblom. It is suggested th
at the form in which the lexicon is stored includes both segments and
distinctive features, and this representation is neutral with respect
to the articulatory and the acoustic domains. The process by which fea
tures are determined from the sound requires that patterns of acoustic
properties be identified. In developing models of speech perception,
knowledge of articulatory-acoustic relations can be a guide in definin
g these properties, but it is not necessary for the models to assign p
rimary status to articulation. (C) 1996 Acoustical Society of America.