Speaking


Language is the light of the mind. -- John Stuart Mill

In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French; I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language. -- Mark Twain The Innocents Abroad


Introduction
The vocal tract and articulatory dynamics

        front
        back
        high
        "sin"
        "book"

        "get"
        "luck"
        low
        "ash"
        "caught"
Variability and the motor theory of speech perception Speech errors Brain mechanisms underlying speech