Louis M. Goldstein is an American

linguist Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. It is called a scientific study because it entails a comprehensive, systematic, objective, and precise analysis of all aspects of language, particularly its nature and structure. Linguis ...

and cognitive scientist. He was previously a professor and chair of the Department of Linguistics and a professor of

psychology Psychology is the scientific study of mind and behavior. Psychology includes the study of conscious and unconscious phenomena, including feelings and thoughts. It is an academic discipline of immense scope, crossing the boundaries betwe ...

Yale University Yale University is a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and among the most prestigious in the wo ...

and is now a professor in the Department of Linguistics at the

University of Southern California The University of Southern California (USC, SC, or Southern Cal) is a Private university, private research university in Los Angeles, California, United States. Founded in 1880 by Robert M. Widney, it is the oldest private research university in C ...

. He is a senior scientist at

Haskins Laboratories Haskins Laboratories, Inc. is an independent 501(c) non-profit corporation, founded in 1935 and located in New Haven, Connecticut, since 1970. Haskins has formal affiliation agreements with both Yale University and the University of Connecticut; ...

in New Haven, Connecticut, and a founding member of the

Association for Laboratory Phonology The Association for Laboratory Phonology is a non-profit professional society for researchers interested in the sound structure of language. It was founded to promote the scientific study of all aspects of phonetics and phonology of oral and sign l ...

. Notable students of Goldstein include

Douglas Whalen Douglas H. Whalen is an American linguist. He received his Ph.D. in Linguistics from Yale University in 1982 as a student of Louis M. Goldstein. Since 2011 he has been a Distinguished Professor in the Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences program at t ...

and Elizabeth Zsiga. He is best known for the development, with

Catherine Browman Catherine Phebe Browman ( �kæθrɪn ˈfibi ˈbraʊ̯mən 1945–18 July 2008) was an American Linguistics, linguist and speech scientist. She received her Doctor of Philosophy, Ph.D. in linguistics from the University of California, Los Angele ...

, of the theory of

articulatory phonology Articulatory phonology is a linguistic theory originally proposed in 1986 by Catherine Browman of Haskins Laboratories and Louis Goldstein of University of Southern California and Haskins. The theory identifies theoretical discrepancies between phon ...

, a gesture-based approach to

phonological Phonology is the branch of linguistics that studies how languages or dialects systematically organize their sounds or, for sign languages, their constituent parts of signs. The term can also refer specifically to the sound or sign system of a ...

and

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. ...

structure. The theoretical approach is incorporated in a computational model that generates speech from a gesturally-specified lexicon. Goldstein,

Philip Rubin Philip E. Rubin (born May 22, 1949) is an American cognitive scientist, technologist, and science administrator known for raising the visibility of behavioral and cognitive science, neuroscience, and ethical issues related to science, techno ...

, and Mark Tiede designed a revision of the

articulatory synthesis Articulatory synthesis refers to computational techniques for synthesizing speech based on models of the human vocal tract and the articulation processes occurring there. The shape of the vocal tract can be controlled in a number of ways which us ...

model, known as CASY, the Configurable Articulatory Synthesizer. This three-dimensional model of the

vocal tract The vocal tract is the cavity in human bodies and in animals where the sound produced at the sound source (larynx in mammals; syrinx (biology), syrinx in birds) is filtered. In birds it consists of the Vertebrate trachea, trachea, the Syrinx (bio ...

permits researchers to replicate

MRI Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a medical imaging technique used in radiology to form pictures of the anatomy and the physiological processes of the body. MRI scanners use strong magnetic fields, magnetic field gradients, and radio waves ...

images of actual speakers and has been used to study the relation between speech production and perception.

Education

Louis Goldstein received his undergraduate degree from

Brandeis University , mottoeng = "Truth even unto its innermost parts" , established = , type = Private research university , accreditation = NECHE , president = Ronald D. Liebowitz , pro ...

and his Ph.D. in linguistics from

UCLA The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California. UCLA's academic roots were established in 1881 as a teachers college then known as the southern branch of the California St ...

in 1977.

Current work

Goldstein's current research involves the development of the gestural model and its application to three problems. (1) Phonological encoding in speech production. The nature of the representations assembled during speech production are investigated experimentally, including measurement of articulatory activity during speech errors. (2) The emergence of phonological structure. Research includes the analysis of infant and child behavior and modeling the growth of phonological structure through the interaction of computational agents. (3) Syllable structure. Syllable structures are modeled as stable modes of inter-gestural coordination. Cross-language empirical studies attempt to find the modes that can occur human languages. Theoretical work attempts to understand these modes and their variability from the perspective of the dynamics of coupled oscillators.

Selected publications

* Browman, Catherine. P., and Louis M. Goldstein. 2000. Competing constraints on intergestural coordination and self-organization of phonological structures. ''Les Cahiers de l'ICP, Bulletin de la communication parlée'' 5:25–34. * Goldstein, Louis M., and

Carol Fowler Carol Ann Fowler is an American experimental psychologist. She was president and director of research at Haskins Laboratories in New Haven, Connecticut New Haven is a city in the U.S. state of Connecticut. It is located on New Haven Harbor ...

. 2003. Articulatory phonology: a phonology for public language use." In ''Phonetics and Phonology in Language Comprehension and Production: Differences and Similarities'', ed. Antje S. Meyer and Niels O. Schiller. Mouton de Gruyter * Studdert-Kennedy, Michael, and Louis M. Goldstein. 2003. Launching language: The gestural origin of discrete infinity. In ''Language Evolution'', ed. Morten H. Christiansen and Simon Kirby, Studies in the Evolution of Language. New York: Oxford University Press.

References

External links

USC faculty page

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