These data will be used to model termination- restart cycles and resolution, generate hypotheses and test them experimentally. The recorded samples of repetitive fragmentation and target words are analyzed using computer based acoustic analytic techniques. We explain the results in terms of the dynamic timing relation between upper articulatory release of a stop and the onset of voicing for the following vowel. The former is spectra-temporally deviant and the later is temporally deviant from target vowels. We are currently testing the several implications of our study by enlisting subjects for the project.
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Fragment types and their articulatory processes. J. Speech and Hear. Proceedings of the First World Congress and Fluency Disorders. Edited by C. W. Starkweather and Herman F. M. Peters, University Press Nijmegen, The Netherlands, pp 60-63.