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  1. Perkell, J.S. (1969). Physiology of Speech Production: Results and Implications of a Quantitative Cineradiographic Study. Research Monograph No. 53, The M.I.T. Press, Cambridge, MA.
  2. Perkell, J.S. and Klatt, D. (eds.) (1986). Invariance and Variability of Speech Processes, Lawrence Erlbaum Assoc., Hillsdale, NJ. (Proceedings of an international conference organized by J. Perkell and D. Klatt at MIT with support from NIH and NSF)

Papers in Refereed Journals

  1. Nelson, W.L., Perkell, J.S. and Westbury, J.R. (1984). Mandible movements during increasingly rapid articulations of single syllables: Preliminary observations, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 75, pp. 945-951.
  2. Perkell, J.S. and Nelson, W.L. (1985). Variability in production of the vowels /i/ and /a/, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 77, 1889-1895.
  3. Perkell, J.S. (1986). Coarticulation strategies: Preliminary implications of a detailed analysis of lower lip movements, Speech Communication 5, No. 2, 47-68.
  4. Holmberg, E., Hillman, R.E. and Perkell, J.S. (1988). Glottal air flow and transglottal pressure measurements for male and female speakers in soft, normal and loud voice, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 84, pp. 511-529.
  5. Perkell, J.S. and Cohen, M.H. (1989). An indirect test of the quantal nature of speech in the production of the vowels /i/, /a/ and /u/, J. Phonetics 17, 123-133.
  6. Hillman, R.E., Holmberg, E., Perkell, J.S., Walsh, M. and Vaughan, C. (1989). Objective assessment of vocal hyperfunction: A theoretical framework and preliminary results, J. Speech and Hearing Res. 32, 373-392.
  7. Holmberg, E.B, Hillman, R.E., Perkell, J.S. (1989). Glottal air flow and transglottal pressure measurements for male and female speakers in low, normal and high pitch, J. Voice 3, 294-305.
  8. Hillman, R.E., Holmberg, E., Perkell, J.S., Walsh, M. and Vaughan, C. (1990). Phonatory function associated with hyperfunctionally-related vocal fold lesions, J. Voice 4, 52-63.
  9. Perkell, J.S., Holmberg, E.B. and Hillman, R.E. (1991). A system for signal processing and data extraction from aerodynamic, acoustic, and electroglottographic signals in the study of voice production, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 89, 1777-1781.
  10. Lane, H., Perkell, J., Svirsky, M., and Webster, J. (1991). Changes in speech breathing following cochlear implant in postlingually deafened adults, J. Speech Hear. Res. 34, 526-533.
  11. Perkell, J.S. and Matthies, M.L. (1992). Temporal measures of anticipatory coarticulation for the vowel /u/: Within- and cross-subject variability, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 91, 2911-2925.
  12. Perkell, J., Lane, H., Svirsky, M. and Webster, J. (1992). Speech of cochlear implant patients: A longitudinal study of vowel production, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 91, 2961-2979.
  13. Svirsky, M., Lane, H., Perkell, J., and Webster, J. (1992). Speech of cochlear implant patients: Results of a short-term auditory deprivation study, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 92, 1284-1300.
  14. Perkell, J., Cohen, M., Svirsky, M., Matthies, M., Garabieta, I., and Jackson, M. (1992). Electro-magnetic midsagittal articulometer (EMMA) systems for transducing speech articulatory movements, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 92, 3078-3096.
  15. Perkell, J.S., Matthies, M.L., Svirsky, M.A. and Jordan, M.I. (1993). Trading relations between tongue-body raising and lip rounding in production of the vowel /u/: A pilot motor equivalence study, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 93, 2948-2961
  16. Holmberg, E., Perkell, J., Hillman, R. and Gress, C. (1994). Individual variation in measures of voice, Phonetica 51, 30-37.
  17. Perkell, J., Hillman, R. and Holmberg, E. (1994). Group differences in measures of voice production and revised values of maximum airflow declination rate, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 96, 695-698.
  18. Holmberg, E., Hillman, R., Perkell, J. and Gress, C. (1994). Relationships between intra-speaker variation in aerodynamic measures of voice production and variation in SPL across repeated recordings, J. Speech Hear. Res. 37, 484-495.
  19. Sperry, E., Hillman, R. and Perkell, J. (1994). Use of inductance plethysmography to assess respiratory function in a patient with vocal nodules, J. Medical Speech-Language Pathology 2, 137-145.
  20. Lane, H., Wozniak, J. and Perkell, J.S. (1994). Changes in voice-onset time in speakers with cochlear implants, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 96, 56-64.
  21. Matthies, M.L., Svirsky, M.A., Lane, H., and Perkell, J.S. (1994). A preliminary study of the effects of cochlear implants on the production of sibilants, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 96, 1367-1373.
  22. Perkell, J.S., Matthies, M.L., Svirsky, M.A. and Jordan, M.I. (1995). Goal-based speech motor control: A theoretical framework and some preliminary data, Journal of Phonetics, 23, 23-35. Also in Disorders of Motor Speech: Assessment, Treatment, and Clinical Characterization, Baltimore: Paul H. Brookes, pp. 27-42.
  23. Holmberg, E.B., Hillman, R.E., Perkell, J.S. and Goldman, S. (1995). Comparisons among aerodynamic, electroglottographic, and acoustic spectrum measures of female voices, Journal of Speech and Hearing Research 38, 1212-1223.
  24. Lane, H., Wozniak, J., Matthies, M.L., Svirsky, M.A. and Perkell, J.S. (1995). Phonemic resetting vs. postural adjustments in the speech of cochlear implant users: an exploration of voice onset time. J. Acoust. Soc. Am 98, 3096-3106.
  25. Matthies, M.L., Svirsky, M.A., Perkell, J.S. and Lane, H. (1996). Acoustic and articulatory measures of sibilant production with and without auditory feedback from a cochlear implant, J. Speech and Hearing Res. 39, pp. 936-946.
  26. Perkell, J.S. (1996). Properties of the tongue help to define vowel categories: Hypotheses based on physiologically-oriented modeling, Journal of Phonetics, 24, 3-22.
  27. Lane, H., Wozniak, J., Matthies, M.L., Svirsky, M.A., Perkell, J.S., O'Connell, M. and Manzella, J. (1997). Changes in sound pressure and fundamental frequency contours following changes in hearing status, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 101, 2244-2252.
  28. Svirsky, M.A., Stevens, K.N., Matthies, M.L., Manzella, J., Perkell, J.S. and Wilhelms-Tricarico, R. (1997). Tongue surface displacement during obstruent stop consonants, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 102, 562-571.
  29. Lane, H., Wozniak, J., Matthies, M.L., Svirsky, M.A., Perkell, J.S., O'Connell, M. and Manzella, J. (1997). Changes in sound pressure and fundamental frequency contours following changes in hearing status, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 101, 2244-2252.
  30. Perkell, J.S., Matthies, M.L., Lane, H., Guenther, F.H., Wilhelms-Tricarico, R., Wozniak, J. and Guiod, P. (1997). Speech motor control: Acoustic goals, saturation effects, auditory feedback and internal models, Speech Communication 22, 227-250.
  31. Lane, H., Perkell, J., Wozniak, J., Manzella, J., Guiod, P., Matthies, M., MacCollin, M. and Vick, J. (1998). The effect of changes in hearing status on speech sound level and speech breathing: A study conducted with cochlear implant users and NF-2 patients, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 104, 3059-3069.
  32. Guenther, F., Espy-Wilson, C., Boyce, S., Matthies, M., Zandipour, M. and Perkell, J. (1999). Articulatory tradeoffs reduce acoustic variability during American English /r/ production, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 105, 2854-2865.
  33. Perkell, J.S., Guenther, F.H., Lane, H., Matthies, M.L., Perrier, P., Vick, J., Wilhelms-Tricarico, R. and Zandipour, M. (2000). A theory of speech motor control and supporting data from speakers with normal hearing and with profound hearing loss, J. Phonetics, 28, 233-372.
  34. Matthies, M., Perrier, P., Perkell, J. and Zandipour, M. (2001). Variation in coarticulation with changes in clarity and rate, J. Speech, Language and Hearing Res. 44, 552-563.
  35. Gould, J., Lane, H., Perkell, J., Vick, J., Matthies, M., and Zandipour, M. (2001). Changes in the intelligibility of postlingually deaf adults after cochlear implantation. Ear and Hearing, 22: 453-60.
  36. Lane, H., Matthies, M., Perkell, J., Vick, J., and Zandipour, M. (2001). The effects of changes in hearing status in cochlear implant users on the acoustic vowel space and coarticulation. J. Speech, Language and Hearing Res. 44, 552-63.
  37. Perkell, J., Numa, W., Vick, J., Lane, H., Balkany, T. and Gould, J. (2001). Language-specific, hearing-related changes in vowel spaces: A preliminary study of English- and Spanish-speaking cochlear implant users. Ear and Hearing, 22: 461-470.
  38. Vick, J., Lane, H., Perkell, J., Matthies, M., Gould, J., and Zandipour, M. (2001). Speech perception, production and intelligibility improvements in vowel-pair contrasts in adults who receive cochlear implants. J. Speech, Language and Hearing Res., 44, 1257-68.
  39. Perkell, J., Zandipour, M., Matthies, M. and Lane, H. (2002). Economy of effort in different speaking conditions. I. A preliminary study of intersubject differences and modeling issues, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 112, 1627-41.
  40. Perkell, J., and Zandipour, M. (2002). Economy of effort in different speaking conditions. II. Kinematic performance spaces for cyclical and speech movements, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 112, 1642-51.
  41. Holmberg, E.B., Doyle, P., Perkell, J.S., Hammarberg, B. & Hillman R.E. (2003) Aerodynamic and acoustic voice measurements of patients with vocal nodules: Variation in baseline and changes across voice therapy, J. Voice 17, 262-282.
  42. Perrier P, Payan Y, Zandipour M, Perkell J. (2003). Influences of tongue biomechanics on speech movements during the production of velar stop consonants: a modeling study. J Acoust. Soc. Am. 114, 1582-99.

Proceedings of Refereed Conferences (* - invited lecture)

  1. Perkell, J. (1965). Physiology of speech production: Implications of a detailed analysis of certain articulatory movements, Proceedings of the Vth International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Liege, Belgium, September.
  2. Perkell, J.S., (1974). A physiologically oriented model of tongue activity during speech production, Proceedings of the VIIIth International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Leeds, England, July.
  3. Perkell, J. (1979). On the use of orosensory feedback: An interpretation of compensatory articulation experiments, Proceedings of the IXth International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Copenhagen, vol. II, 358-364.*
  4. Holmberg, E., Hillman, R. & Perkell, J. (1983). Relationships among indirect measurements of glottal resistance and vocal efficiency and derived glottal waveform characteristics for normal speakers. Proceedings of the Xth International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Utrecht, Aug. 1-6, vol. IIA, 445.
  5. Perkell, J. (1983). Individual and possible language-related differences in two aspects of coarticulation: Time of beginning of anticipation and the production of “troughs”. Proceedings of the Xth International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Utrecht, Aug. 1-6, vol. IIA, 474.
  6. Cohen, M. & Perkell, J. (1986). Palatographic and acoustic measurements of the fricative consonant pair /s/ and /?/, Proceedings of the 12th International Congress on Acoustics, Toronto, July 24-31, A3-5.
  7. Perkell, J. and Cohen, M. (1986). Preliminary support for a “hybrid model” of anticipatory coarticulation, Proceedings of the 12th International Congress on Acoustics, Toronto, July 24-31, A3-6.
  8. Holmberg, E., Hillman, R. & Perkell, J. (1986). Relationships among parameters of the glottal waveform and intensity variation for male and female speakers, Proceedings of the 12th International Congress on Acoustics, Toronto, July 24-31, A3-10.
  9. Perkell, J. (1991). Models theory and data in speech production, Proceedings of the XIIth International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Aix-en-Provence, France, pp. 1:182-191.*
  10. Lane, H., Perkell, J., Svirsky, M. & Webster, J. (1991). Changes in speech breathing following cochlear implant in postlingually deafened adults, Proceedings of the XIIth International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Aix-en-Provence, France, pp. 4:334-337.
  11. Wilhelms-Tricarico, R. and Perkell, J. (1995). Toward a physiological model of speech production, Proceedings of the XIIIth International Congress of Phonetics Sciences, Stockholm, Aug. 13-19, Vol. 2, 68-75.
  12. Holmberg, E., Hillman, R. & Perkell, J. (1995). Measures of glottal airflow waveform, EGG and acoustic spectral slope for female voice. Proceedings of the XIIIth International Congress of Phonetics Sciences, Stockholm, Aug. 13-19, Vol. 3, 178-181.
  13. Perkell, J., Manzella, J., Wozniak, J., Matthies, M., Lane, H., Svirsky, M., Guiod, P., Delhorne, L., Short, P., MacCollin, M., & Mitchell, C. (1995). Changes in speech production following hearing loss due to bilateral acoustic neuromas, Proceedings of the XIIIth International Congress of Phonetics Sciences, Stockholm, Aug. 13-19, Vol. 3, 194-197.
  14. Perkell, J., Matthies, M., Wilhelms-Tricarico, R., Lane, H. & Wozniak, J. (1996). Speech motor control: Phonemic goals and the use of feedback, 4th Speech Production Seminar: Models and Data, Autrans, France, May 20-24, 133-136.
  15. Perrier, P., Payan, J., Perkell, J., Jolly, F., Zandipour, M. & Matthies, M. (1998). On loops and articulatory biomechanics, Fifth International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Sydney, Nov. 30-Dec. 4.
  16. Perkell, J., Zandipour, M., Matthies, M. & Lane, H. (1999). Articulatory kinematics: Preliminary data on the effects of speaking condition, articulator and movement type, Proceedings of the XIVth International Congress of Phonetics Sciences, San Francisco, Aug. 1-7.
  17. Perkell, J., Zandipour, M., Vick, J., Matthies, M., Lane, H., Guenther, F. & Gould, J. (2000). Rapid changes in speech production parameters in response to a change in hearing, Proceedings of the 5th Seminar on Speech Production: Models and Data, Kloster Seeon, Bavaria, May 1-4, 245-248.
  18. Perrier, P., Payan, J., Perkell, J., Zandipour, M., Pelorson, X., Coisy, V. & Matthies, M. (2000). An attempt to simulate fluid-walls interactions during velar stops, Proceedings of the 5th Seminar on Speech Production: Models and Data, Kloster Seeon, Bavaria, May 1-4, 149-152.
  19. Perrier, P., Perkell, J., Payan, J., Zandipour, M., Guenther, F. & Khaligi, A. (2000). Degrees of freedom of tongue movements in speech may be constrained by biomechanics, Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Beijing, Oct. 16-20, II: 162-165.
  20. Perkell, J.S., Guenther, F.H., Lane, H., Matthies, M.L., Payan, Y., Perrier, P., Vick, J. Wilhelms-Tricarico, R. and Zandipour, M. (2001). The sensorimotor control of speech production, Proceedings of the International Symposium on Measurement, Analysis and Modeling of Human Functions, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan, Sept. 21-23, pp. 359-365.*
  21. Perkell, J., Guenther, F., Lane, H., Matthies, M., Stockmann, E., Tiede, M., & Zandipour, M. (2003). Cross-subject relations between measures of vowel production and perception, Proceedings of the XVth International Congress of Phonetics Sciences, Barcelona, Aug. 3-9, 439-442.
  22. Tiede, M., Perkell, J., Zandipour, M., Matthies, M. & Stockmann, E. (2003). A new approach to pressure-sensitive palatography using a capacitive sensing device, Proceedings of the XVth International Congress of Phonetics Sciences, Barcelona, Aug. 3-9, 3149-3152.
  23. Perkell, J.S., Matthies, M.L., Guenther, F.H., Tiede, M., Zandipour, M., Stockmann, E. and Marrone, N. (2003). Sensory goals for speech movements: Cross-subject relations among production, perception and the use of an articulatory saturation effect, Proceedings of the 6th International Seminar on Speech Production, Sydney, Dec. 7-10, pp. 219-224.
  24. Zandipour, M., Guenther, F.H., Perkell, J.S., Perrier, P., Payan, Y. and Badin, P. (2004). Vowel-vowel planning in acoustic and muscle space, Proceedings of Sound to Sense: 50 + Years of Discoveries in Speech Communication, M.I.T., Cambridge, MA, June 11-13.

Other Major Publications

  1. Perkell, J.S. (1977). Articulatory Modeling, phonetic features and speech production strategies, In Articulatory Modeling and Phonetics, R. Carre, R. Descout, and M. Wajskop (eds.), Groupe de la Communication Parlee.
  2. Stevens, K.N. and J.S. Perkell (1977). Speech physiology and phonetic features, in Dynamic Aspects of Speech Production, M. Sawashima and F. Cooper (eds.), University of Tokyo Press, Tokyo.
  3. Perkell, J.S. (1979). On the nature of distinctive features: Implications of a preliminary vowel production study, in Frontiers of Speech Communication Research, B. Lindblom and S. Öhman (eds.), Academic Press, London.
  4. Perkell, J.S., Boyce, S.E. & Stevens, K.N. (1979). Articulatory and acoustic correlates of the [s-sh] distinction, Speech Communication Papers, 97th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, J.J. Wolf and D.H. Klatt (eds.), 109-113.
  5. Perkell, J.S. (1980). Phonetic features and the physiology of speech production, in Language Production, B. Butterworth (ed.), Academic Press, New York.
  6. Perkell, J.S. (1981). On the use of feedback in speech production, in The Cognitive Representation of Speech, T. Myers, J. Laver and J. Anderson (eds.), North Holland, New York.
  7. Perkell, J.S. (1990). Testing theories of speech production: Implications of some detailed analyses of variable articulatory data, in Speech Production and Speech Modeling, edited by W.J. Hardcastle and A. Marchal, 263-288 (Kluwer, Dordrecht).
  8. Wilhelms-Tricarico, R. and Perkell, J.S. (1996). Biomechanical and physiologically-based speech modeling, in Progress in Speech Synthesis, J.P.H. van Santen, R.W. Sproat, J.P. Olive and J. Hirshberg (eds.), Springer, New York, pp. 221-234.
  9. Perkell, J.S. (1997). Articulatory Processes, in W. Hardcastle and J. Laver (eds.) The Handbook of Phonetic Sciences, Blackwell, pp. 333-370.
  10. Perkell, J.S. and Cohen, M.H. (1997). Token-to-token variation of tongue-body vowel targets: The effect of context, in S. Kiritani, H. Hirose & H. Fujisaki (Eds.), Speech Production and Language: In Honor of Osamu Fujimura, pp. 229-249, New York: Mouton de Gruyter.
  11. Guenther, F. and Perkell, J. (2004). A Neural Model of Speech Production and its Application to Studies of the Role of Auditory Feedback in Speech, in Speech Motor Control in Normal and Disordered Speech, Eds: B. Maassen, R. Kent, H.F.M. Peters, P. Van Lieshout & W. Hulstijn, Oxford University Press, 29-50.