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Links Between Production and Perception in Speech

Award Number: R01DC002717
ORGANIZATION: NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON DEAFNESS AND OTHER COMMUNICATION DISORDERS
OPDIV: NIH
AWARD CLASS: DISCRETIONARY
AWARD ACTIVITY TYPE: SCIENTIFIC/HEALTH RESEARCH (INCLUDES SURVEYS)

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Project Summary/Abstract This project addresses ways in which speakers use the vocal tract to create speech (production) and listeners extract the underlying meaningful parts of the signal (perception). Speech is an essential part of human society, and great effort is put into learning to talk, speaking with others, and repairing difficulties in speech when necessary. Speech is also quite variable, and the variability is due to both structured and random factors. The structured variability provides information about, for example, the size of the speaker’s vocal tract, where the speaker comes from, and what speech segments are adjacent to the one being produced. The random variability is often seen as unhelpful, but recent work indicates that it can provide flexibility that is beneficial. In the current proposal, measurements of speech articulation and acoustics will be combined with mathematical modeling to distinguish flexibility from diminished control. Flexibility is also essential in perception, so that the wide range of speakers one encounters, with their individual speech characteristics, can still be understood. Flexibility around baseline control is important in production so that communication can be tuned to specific situations, such as speaking more clearly to someone who does not speak the language natively. The sources of variability in speech will be examined in production experiments where the tongue, lips and other articulators are measured with such approaches as ultrasound and electromagnetic articulometry, and in perception experiments, where the output of the vocal tract variability can be measured for its ability to convey a message. Mathematical methods that use nonlinear dynamics will separate the controlled and random variability present in the production signals. The results will provide a better foundation for assessing speech difficulties, such as second language accent or stuttering, and should suggest new means of remediation. In these studies, biofeedback will be used to show the speaker what their tongue is doing and what it should be doing. The topics explored—articulator movement, articulatory settings, and variability—are globally applicable to speech in any language. They are foundational issues and thus not likely to be fully understood from any one set of studies, but the current studies will considerably advance our knowledge and our ability to model that knowledge.


Issue Date FY	Funding FY	Legal Entity Name	Legal Entity Address	Legal Entity City	Legal Entity State	Legal Entity Zip Code	Legal Entity COUNTY	Legal Entity COUNTRY	Assistance Listing	Award Code	Budget Year	Action Date	Action Type	Action Amount

Issue Date FY: 2023 ( Subtotal = $43,707 )
2023	2022	YALE UNIVERSITY	105 WALL ST	NEW HAVEN	CT	06511	SOUTH CENTRAL CT	USA	Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders	003	24	8/18/2023	CHANGE OF GRANTEE / TRAINING INSTITUTION / AWARDING INSTITUTION	$259,878
2023	2022	HASKINS LABORATORIES, INC.	300 GEORGE ST STE 900	NEW HAVEN	CT	06511	SOUTH CENTRAL CT	USA	Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders	002	23	8/18/2023	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	-$259,878
2023	2022	YALE UNIVERSITY	105 WALL ST	NEW HAVEN	CT	06511	SOUTH CENTRAL CT	USA	Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders	001	24	4/22/2023	CHANGE OF GRANTEE / TRAINING INSTITUTION / AWARDING INSTITUTION	$135,762
2023	2022	HASKINS LABORATORIES, INC.	300 GEORGE ST STE 900	NEW HAVEN	CT	06511	SOUTH CENTRAL CT	USA	Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders	000	23	4/21/2023	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	-$92,055
														Subtotal = $43,707

Issue Date FY: 2022 ( Subtotal = $568,660 )
2022	2022	HASKINS LABORATORIES, INC.	300 GEORGE ST STE 900	NEW HAVEN	CT	06511	SOUTH CENTRAL CT	USA	Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders	000	23	7/25/2022	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$568,660
														Subtotal = $568,660

Issue Date FY: 2021 ( Subtotal = $818,150 )
2021	2021	HASKINS LABORATORIES, INC.	300 GEORGE ST STE 900	NEW HAVEN	CT	06511	SOUTH CENTRAL CT	USA	Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders	001	22	8/12/2021	SUPPLEMENT FOR EXPANSION	$238,316
2021	2021	HASKINS LABORATORIES, INC.	300 GEORGE ST STE 900	NEW HAVEN	CT	06511	SOUTH CENTRAL CT	USA	Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders	000	22	7/20/2021	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$579,834
														Subtotal = $818,150

Issue Date FY: 2020 ( Subtotal = $587,658 )
2020	2020	HASKINS LABORATORIES, INC.	300 GEORGE ST STE 900	NEW HAVEN	CT	06511	SOUTH CENTRAL CT	USA	Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders	000	21	7/28/2020	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$587,658
														Subtotal = $587,658

Issue Date FY: 2019 ( Subtotal = $587,594 )
2019	2019	HASKINS LABORATORIES, INC.	300 GEORGE ST STE 900	NEW HAVEN	CT	06511	SOUTH CENTRAL CT	USA	Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders	001	20	7/29/2019	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$587,594
2019	2016	HASKINS LABORATORIES, INC.	300 GEORGE ST STE 900	NEW HAVEN	CT	06511	SOUTH CENTRAL CT	USA	Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders	000	18	3/26/2019	EXTENSION WITH OR WITHOUT FUNDS	$0
														Subtotal = $587,594

Issue Date FY: 2018 ( Subtotal = $623,242 )
2018	2018	HASKINS LABORATORIES, INC.	300 GEORGE ST STE 900	NEW HAVEN	CT	06511	SOUTH CENTRAL CT	USA	Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders	000	19	8/6/2018	COMPETING CONTINUATION	$623,242
														Subtotal = $623,242

Issue Date FY: 2017 ( Subtotal = $0 )
2017	2016	HASKINS LABORATORIES, INC.	300 GEORGE ST STE 900	NEW HAVEN	CT	06511	SOUTH CENTRAL CT	USA	Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders	001	18	1/13/2017	EXTENSION WITH OR WITHOUT FUNDS	$676,863
2017	2015	HASKINS LABORATORIES, INC.	300 GEORGE ST STE 900	NEW HAVEN	CT	06511	SOUTH CENTRAL CT	USA	Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders	000	17	1/13/2017	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	-$676,863
														Subtotal = $0

Issue Date FY: 2016 ( Subtotal = $711,228 )
2016	2016	HASKINS LABORATORIES	300 GEORGE STREET	NEW HAVEN	CT	06511	SOUTH CENTRAL CT	USA	Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders	000	18	7/19/2016	EXTENSION WITH OR WITHOUT FUNDS	$711,228
														Subtotal = $711,228

Issue Date FY: 2015 ( Subtotal = $704,115 )
2015	2015	HASKINS LABORATORIES	300 GEORGE STREET	NEW HAVEN	CT	06511	SOUTH CENTRAL CT	USA	Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders	000	17	7/23/2015	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$704,115
														Subtotal = $704,115

Issue Date FY: 2014 ( Subtotal = $736,771 )
2014	2014	HASKINS LABORATORIES	300 GEORGE STREET	NEW HAVEN	CT	06511	SOUTH CENTRAL CT	USA	Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders	000	16	7/9/2014	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$736,771
														Subtotal = $736,771

Issue Date FY: 2013 ( Subtotal = $707,054 )
2013	2013	HASKINS LABORATORIES	300 GEORGE STREET	NEW HAVEN	CT	06511	SOUTH CENTRAL CT	USA	Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders	000	15	7/19/2013	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$707,054
														Subtotal = $707,054

Issue Date FY: 2012 ( Subtotal = $751,393 )
2012	2012	HASKINS LABORATORIES	300 GEORGE STREET	NEW HAVEN	CT	06511	SOUTH CENTRAL CT	USA	Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders	000	14	8/6/2012	COMPETING CONTINUATION	$751,393
														Subtotal = $751,393

Issue Date FY: 2010 ( Subtotal = $642,698 )
2010	2010	HASKINS LABORATORIES	300 GEORGE STREET	NEW HAVEN	CT	06511	SOUTH CENTRAL CT	USA	Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders	000	13	3/19/2010	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$642,698
														Subtotal = $642,698

Issue Date FY: 2009 ( Subtotal = $656,847 )
2009	2009	HASKINS LABORATORIES	300 GEORGE STREET	NEW HAVEN	CT	06511	SOUTH CENTRAL CT	USA	Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support	001	12	5/29/2009	SUPPLEMENT FOR EXPANSION	$11,894
2009	2009	HASKINS LABORATORIES	300 GEORGE STREET	NEW HAVEN	CT	06511	SOUTH CENTRAL CT	USA	Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders	000	12	3/17/2009	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$644,953
2009	2009	HASKINS LABORATORIES	300 GEORGE STREET	NEW HAVEN	CT	06511	SOUTH CENTRAL CT	USA	Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support	002	12	6/26/2009	SUPPLEMENT FOR EXPANSION	$0
														Subtotal = $656,847

Issue Date FY: 2008 ( Subtotal = $626,960 )
2008	2008	HASKINS LABORATORIES	300 GEORGE STREET	NEW HAVEN	CT	06511	SOUTH CENTRAL CT	USA	Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders	000	11	3/18/2008	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$626,960
														Subtotal = $626,960

Issue Date FY: 2007 ( Subtotal = $637,633 )
2007	2007	HASKINS LABORATORIES	300 GEORGE STREET	NEW HAVEN	CT	06511	SOUTH CENTRAL CT	USA	Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders	000	10	3/20/2007	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$637,633
														Subtotal = $637,633

Issue Date FY: 2006 ( Subtotal = $700,032 )
2006	2006	HASKINS LABORATORIES	270 CROWN STREET	NEW HAVEN	CT	06511	SOUTH CENTRAL CT	USA	Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders	000	9	3/16/2006	COMPETING CONTINUATION	$700,032
														Subtotal = $700,032

Issue Date FY: 2004 ( Subtotal = $565,041 )
2004	2004	HASKINS LABORATORIES	270 CROWN STREET	NEW HAVEN	CT	06511	SOUTH CENTRAL CT	USA	Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders	000	8	6/23/2004	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$565,041
														Subtotal = $565,041

Issue Date FY: 2003 ( Subtotal = $560,714 )
2003	2003	HASKINS LABORATORIES	270 CROWN STREET	NEW HAVEN	CT	06511	SOUTH CENTRAL CT	USA	Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders	000	7	6/17/2003	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$560,714
														Subtotal = $560,714

Issue Date FY: 2002 ( Subtotal = $532,532 )
2002	2002	HASKINS LABORATORIES	270 CROWN STREET	NEW HAVEN	CT	06511	SOUTH CENTRAL CT	USA	Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders	000	6	6/17/2002	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$532,532
														Subtotal = $532,532

Issue Date FY: 2001 ( Subtotal = $520,811 )
2001	2001	HASKINS LABORATORIES	270 CROWN STREET	NEW HAVEN	CT	06511	SOUTH CENTRAL CT	USA	Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders	000	5	6/25/2001	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$520,811
														Subtotal = $520,811

Grand Total All Awards = $13,309,187

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Award Number: R01DC002717

ORGANIZATION: NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON DEAFNESS AND OTHER COMMUNICATION DISORDERS

OPDIV: NIH

AWARD CLASS: DISCRETIONARY

AWARD ACTIVITY TYPE: SCIENTIFIC/HEALTH RESEARCH (INCLUDES SURVEYS)

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