Speech Motor Control

Section I

Introduction

Opening Remarks

The Interdisciplinary Challenge of speech Motor Control

Section II

Central Processes

Analogies Between Central Motor Programs for Speech and for Limb Movements

Speech Production Mechanisms in Aphasia

Functional Landscapes in the Cerebral Cortex Related to Speech

Comment on the Partial Roles of the Cerebral Hemispheres for Speech

Section III

Respiration And Phonation

Speech Breathing Kinematics and Mechanism Inferences therefrom

Some Aspects of Speech Breathing Physiology

Aspects of Voice Production and Motor Control

Vocal Fold Kinesiology

Some Functional and Histochemical Properties of the Intrinsic Laryngeal Muscles

Section IV

Articulation

Oral Mechanoreceptors

The Neuromuscular System of the Tongue

Consideration of Bulbar and Suprabulbar Afferent Influences Upon Speech Motor Coordination and Programming

Articulatory Targets and Speech Motor Control: A Study of Vowel Production

Spatio-Temporal Goals: Maturational and Cross-Linguistic Variables

Possible Analogies in the Control of Innate Motor Acts and the Production of Sound in Speech

Analogies and Common Features in the Speech and Masticatory Control Systems

Section V

Pathology

Speech Motor Control and Selected Neurologic Disorders

Phonation Types in Dysarthria

Some Comments on the Motor Control of Speech

Section VI

Concluding Remarks

Some Remarks from the Viewpoint of Neurophysiology

Some Remarks from the Viewpoint of Speech Research

Subject Index