Ignatius G. Mattingly'

(1927–2004) was a prominent American

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and speech scientist. Prior to his academic career, he was an analyst for the

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from 1955 to 1966.

He was a Lecturer and then Professor of Linguistics at the

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from 1966 to 1996 and a researcher at

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from 1966 until his death in 2004. He is best known for his pioneering work on speech synthesisbr>
and reading (activity), reading and for his theoretical work on the

motor theory of speech perception The motor theory of speech perception is the hypothesis that people perceive spoken words by identifying the vocal tract gestures with which they are pronounced rather than by identifying the sound patterns that speech generates. It originally cl ...

in conjunction with Alvin Libermanbr>
He received his B.A. in English from

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in 1947, his M.A. in Linguistics from

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in 1959, and his Ph.D. in English from

in 1968.

Speech Synthesis

Ignatius Mattingl

working with British collaborators, John N. Holme

and J.N. Shearm

adapted the Haskins

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rules to write the first computer program for synthesizing continuous speech from a phonetically spelled input. A further step toward a

reading machine A reading machine is a piece of assistive technology that allows blind people to access printed materials. It scans text, converts the image into text by means of optical character recognition and uses a speech synthesizer to read out what it has ...

for the blind combined Mattingly's program with an automatic look-up procedure for converting alphabetic text into strings of

phonetic Phonetics is a branch of linguistics that studies how humans produce and perceive sounds, or in the case of sign languages, the equivalent aspects of sign. Linguists who specialize in studying the physical properties of speech are phoneticians. ...

symbols. In the 1960s he also produced the first prosodic synthesis by rule.Mattingly, I. G. (1966). Synthesis by rule of prosodic features. Language and Speech, 9, 1-13.

Bibliography

* Mattingly, I. G., Liberman, A. M., Syrdal, A. K., & Halwes, T. (1971). Discrimination in speech and nonspeech modes. ''Cognitive Psychology'', 2, 131-157. * Mattingly, I. G. (1972). Reading, the linguistic process, and linguistic awareness. In J. F. Kavanagh & I. G. Mattingly (Eds.), ''Language by ear and by eye: The relationships between speech and reading''.(pp. 133–147). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. * Mattingly, I. G. (1972). Speech cues and sign stimuli. ''American Scientist'', 60, 327-337. * Mattingly, Ignatius G. (1974). Speech synthesis for phonetic and phonological models. In Thomas A. Sebeok (Ed.), ''Current Trends in Linguistics, Volume 12, Mouton'', The Hague, pp. 2451–2487. * Liberman, A. M. & Mattingly, I. G. (1985). The motor theory of speech perception revised. ''Cognition'', 21, 1-36. * Mattingly, I. G. (1990). The global character of phonetic gestures. ''Journal of Phonetics'', 18, 445-452. *Mattingly, I. G. (1991). Reading and the biological function of linguistic representation. In I. G. Mattingly & M. Studdert-Kennedy (Eds.), ''Modularity and the Motor Theory of Speech Perception'' (pp. 339–346). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

References

External links

Haskins Laboratories Mattingly page

* ttps://web.archive.org/web/20070408022818/http://www.mindspring.com/~ssshp/ssshp_cd/ss_nsa.htm Smithsonian Speech Synthesis History Project {{DEFAULTSORT:Mattingly, Ignatius 1927 births 2004 deaths Linguists from the United States Speech perception researchers Dyslexia researchers Harvard University alumni Haskins Laboratories scientists Yale University alumni University of Connecticut faculty 20th-century linguists