ABSTRACT
The central premise of Articulatory Phonology (AP) is that the representational units of phonology correspond to speech production events. AP has played a large role in the trend towards Laboratory Phonology. This chapter introduces the basic mechanics of the AP, including the gestural representational system, the computational system that produces and interprets gestural representations, and the types of articulatory data that proposed representations are often based on. It reviews the AP work on speech errors as a case study. The chapter reviews AP analyses of a variety of phonological processes, both categorical and non-categorical. It then provides an overview of AP work on syllable structure, particularly the coupling model, an important recent development which attempts to explain onset–coda asymmetries as results of different gestural coupling relations. The chapter also focuses on several current trends in AP research, including work on modelling phonological acquisition, morphological structure, tone, and intonation.
