Publisher's Synopsis
Articulatory phonology has provoked considerable interest among phoneticians, phonologists and other scientists. This topical issue begins with a comprehensive article authored by well-known experts in articulatory phonology, Browman and Goldstein. Their article provides an overview of the theory, illustrating the basic concepts of articulatory phonology with representative language data. Four succeeding commentaries provide in-depth analyses of the overview. These are followed by Browman and Goldstein's responding article in which some of the general properties of their approach are clarified and the specific examples brought up in the commentaries are examined in detail.
