This volume discusses all phonetic aspects of speech production: the articulatory apparatus and the way it is controlled, measurement and modeling of articulatory movements, segmental and prosodic aspects of articulation control. In addition, the author proposes a complete phonetic model of speech production proceeding from the level of articulation planning for utterances and charting the generation of articulatory movements, vocal tract geometries and acoustic speech signals.

This book explores the processes of spoken language production and perception from a neurobiological perspective. After presenting the basics of speech processing and speech acquisition, a neurobiologically-inspired and computer-implemented neural model is described, which simulates the neural processes of speech processing and speech acquisition. This book is an introduction to the field and aimed at students and scientists in neuroscience, computer science, medicine, psychology and linguistics.