Catherine Browman
Encyclopedia
Catherine P. Browman http://www.haskins.yale.edu/staff/browman.html is an American linguist
and speech scientist. She was a research scientist at Bell Laboratories in New Jersey and Haskins Laboratories
in New Haven, Connecticut, from which she retired due to illness. While at Bell Laboratories, she was known for her work on speech synthesis
using demisyllables http://festvox.org/history/klatt.html. She is best known for development, with Louis Goldstein
http://www.haskins.yale.edu/staff/goldstein.html, of the theory of articulatory phonology
, a gesture-based approach to phonological and phonetic structure. The theoretical approach is incorporated in a computational model http://www.haskins.yale.edu/research/gestural.html that generates speech from a gesturally-specified lexicon. She received her Ph.D. in linguistics from UCLA in 1978http://www.linguistics.ucla.edu/people/phds.htm and is a founding member of the Association for Laboratory Phonology
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Linguistics
Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. Linguistics can be broadly broken into three categories or subfields of study: language form, language meaning, and language in context....
and speech scientist. She was a research scientist at Bell Laboratories in New Jersey and Haskins Laboratories
Haskins Laboratories
Haskins Laboratories is an independent, international, multidisciplinary community of researchers conducting basic research on spoken and written language. Founded in 1935 and located in New Haven, Connecticut since 1970, Haskins Laboratories is a private, non-profit research institute with a...
in New Haven, Connecticut, from which she retired due to illness. While at Bell Laboratories, she was known for her work on speech synthesis
Speech synthesis
Speech synthesis is the artificial production of human speech. A computer system used for this purpose is called a speech synthesizer, and can be implemented in software or hardware...
using demisyllables http://festvox.org/history/klatt.html. She is best known for development, with Louis Goldstein
Louis M. Goldstein
Louis M. Goldstein is an American linguist and cognitive scientist. He was previously a professor and chair of the Department of Linguistics and a professor of psychology at Yale University, and is now a professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Southern California...
http://www.haskins.yale.edu/staff/goldstein.html, of the theory of articulatory phonology
Articulatory phonology
Articulatory phonology is a linguistic theory originally proposed in 1986 by Catherine Browman of Haskins Laboratories and Louis M. Goldstein of Yale University and Haskins...
, a gesture-based approach to phonological and phonetic structure. The theoretical approach is incorporated in a computational model http://www.haskins.yale.edu/research/gestural.html that generates speech from a gesturally-specified lexicon. She received her Ph.D. in linguistics from UCLA in 1978http://www.linguistics.ucla.edu/people/phds.htm and is a founding member of the Association for Laboratory Phonology
Association for Laboratory Phonology
The Association for Laboratory Phonology is a non-profit professional society for researchers interested in the sound structure of language. It was founded to promote the scientific study of all aspects of phonetics and phonology of spoken and signed languages through scholarly exchange across...
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Selected publications
- Browman, Catherine P.: Rules for demisyllable synthesis using LINGUA, a language interpreter. In: Proc. IEEE, ICASSP'80. New York : IEEE, 1980, S. 561-564
- Browman, C. P., Goldstein, L., Kelso, J. A. S., Rubin, P. E., & Saltzman, E. (1984). Articulatory synthesis from underlying dynamics. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 75, S22.
- Browman, C. P., & Goldstein, L. M. (1986). Towards an articulatory phonology. Phonology Yearbook, 3, 219-252.
- Browman, C. P. (1986). The Hunting of the Quark: The Particle in English. Language and Speech, Vol. 29, Part 4, 311-334.
- Browman, C. P., & Goldstein, L. (1990). Gestural specification using dynamically-defined articulatory structures. Journal of Phonetics, 18, 299-320.
- Browman, C. P.,& Goldstein, L. (1991). Tiers in articulatory phonology, with some implications for casual speech. In J. Kingston and M. E. Beckman (eds), Papers in Laboratory Phonology I: Between the Grammar and the Physics of Speech. Cambridge, U. K.: Cambridge University Press. (pp.341-376).
- Browman, C. P., & Goldstein, L. (1992). Articulatory Phonology: An Overview. Phonetica, 49, 155-180.
- Browman, C.P. & Goldstein, L. (2000). Competing constraints on intergestural coordination and self-organization of phonological structures. Bulletin de la Communication Parlée, no. 5, p.25-34.
- Goldstein, L., & Browman, C. P. (1986) Representation of voicing contrasts using articulatory gestures. Journal of Phonetics, 14, 339-342.
- Saltzman, E., Rubin, P. E., Goldstein, L., & Browman, C. P. (1987). Task-dynamic modeling of interarticulator coordination. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 82, S15.