Ignatius Mattingly

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Ignatius G. Mattingly[1] (1927-2004) was a prominent American linguist and speech scientist. Prior to his academic career, he was an analyst for the National Security Agency from 1955-1966. [2] He was a Lecturer and then Professor of Linguistics at the University of Connecticut from 1966-1996 and a researcher at Haskins Laboratories from 1966 until his death in 2004. He is best known for his pioneering work on speech synthesis [3] and reading and for his theoretical work on the motor theory of speech perception in conjunction with Alvin Liberman [4]. He received his B.A. in English from Yale University in 1947, his M.A. in Linguistics from Harvard University in 1959, and his Ph.D. in English from Yale University in 1968.

Contents 1 Speech Synthesis 2 External Links 3 Bibliography 4 References

[edit] Speech Synthesis

Ignatius Mattingly [5], working with British collaborators, John N. Holmes [6] and J.N. Shearme [7], adapted the Haskins Pattern playback rules to write the first computer program for synthesizing continuous speech from a phonetically spelled input. A further step toward a reading machine for the blind combined Mattingly's program with an automatic look-up procedure for converting alphabetic text into strings of phonetic symbols.^[1] In the 1960s he also produced the first prosodic synthesis by rule.^[2]

[edit] External Links

• Haskins Laboratories Mattingly page
• Klatt Record Audio Examples - first prosodic synthesis by rule by Mattingly
• Smithsonian Speech Synthesis History Project

[edit] 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.

[edit] References