Klaus J. Kohler, Articulatory dynamics of vowels and consonants in speech communication, Journal of the International Phonetic Association, Vol. 31, No. 1 (2001), pp. 1-16 ...

Spoken language has a well-known drive for ease of articulation, which Kirchner (1998, 2004) analyzes as reduction of the total magnitude of all biomechanical forces involved. We extend Kirchner's ...