5^th Seminar on Speech Production: Models and Data

CREST Workshop on Models of Speech Production:

Motor Planning and Articulatory Modelling

Scientific Committee

Co-chairs: Phil Hoole (Munich), Masaaki Honda (NTT), Christine Mooshammer (Berlin)

Kiyoshi Honda (ATR) for Symposium on Speech Evolution

Peter Alfonso (North Carolina), Mary Beckman (Ohio), Vincent Gracco (McGill), Jonathan Harrington (Sydney), Bernd Kröger (Berlin), Christian Kroos (Munich/ATR), Anders Löfqvist (Lund), Shinji Maeda (Paris), Kevin Munhall (Kingston Ontario), Joseph Perkell (MIT), Pascal Perrier (Grenoble), Daniel Recasens (Barcelona), Maureen Stone (Maryland), Eric Vatikiotis-Bateson (ATR), Alan Wrench (Edinburgh)

Acknowledgements

Running of the meeting was supported by the following institutions, whose support is gratefully acknowledged:

Institut für Phonetik und Sprachliche Kommunikation, Munich

CREST, JST

(Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology, Japan Science and Technology Corporation)

Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Berlin

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (grants to Phil Hoole, Munich, and Bernd Pompino-Marschall, Berlin (GWZ 4/5-1, P1.1))

ATR International -- Information Sciences Division, Kyoto

SPS5 Secretariat

Phil Hoole, Michiko Inoue, Klaus Härtl and Jochen Metz

Institut für Phonetik und Sprachliche Kommunikation

Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München

Schellingstr. 3

D-80799 Munich

Forward

The series of Speech Production Seminars moved confidently into the new millennium by retiring to the ancient walls of Kloster Seeon, a former Benedictine monastery in Upper Bavaria with a thousand-year history to look back on.

As at the last meeting in Autrans the present meeting was a cooperative venture. The CREST initiative of Japan Science and Technology supported the conference and ensured a strong Japanese participation.

The large number of contributions we were able to include in this volume of proceedings testifies to the wealth of activity in our field, but also to the sheer hard work and attention to detail necessary to develop models of speech production that can withstand serious scientific scrutiny. As a counterpart to the regular contributions forming the daily bread of the speech scientist, and in keeping with the long tradition of learning of the conference venue, the meeting also included a group of contributions whose express purpose was to allow a widening of perspective: These are, firstly, the five papers from the ATR Symposium on Speech Evolution, and, secondly, the three review papers that look at aspects of motor control and language beyond the immediate confines of speech.

In conclusion a technical note, but one that we hope authors and readers of this volume (and the accompanying CD-ROM) will make use of: Any World Wide Web links to more extensive or more recent versions of the work published here that authors wish to provide us with will be inserted in the appropriate abstract on the conference web site:

Unlike Kloster Seeon we may not be around to provide this service for the next thousand years, but we hope in this way to take at least some account of the obvious fact that our field is anything but a static one and to make the conference a forum whose function persists beyond the four days on which it actually took place.