Motor control of serial ordering of speech

Abstract

Provides "an account of those aspects of the serial ordering process most directly responsible for the sequencing of the movements" and the sounds of language. "Current models of speech production which have implications for the motor control of the serial ordering process" are reviewed, and "some major shortcomings of these models" are discussed. An alternative model which attempts to avoid these shortcomings is presented. It is shown that motor equivalence may be achieved by an internalized space coordinate system which specifies invariant "targets" which control the generation of necessarily context-dependent movement patterns, with the aid of closed-loop control, at least in the initiation of utterances. (2 p. ref.) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved). © 1970 American Psychological Association.