- Ignatius Mattingly
Ignatius G. Mattingly [http://www.haskins.yale.edu/staff/IGM.html] (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. [http://www.mindspring.com/~ssshp/ssshp_cd/ss_nsa.htm] He was a Lecturer and then Professor of Linguistics at theUniversity of Connecticut from 1966-1996 and a researcher atHaskins Laboratories from 1966 until his death in 2004. He is best known for his pioneering work onspeech synthesis [http://festvox.org/history/klatt.html] and reading and for his theoretical work on the motor theory ofspeech perception in conjunction withAlvin Liberman [http://www.haskins.yale.edu/staff/igmconf.html] . He received his B.A. in English fromYale University in 1947, his M.A. in Linguistics fromHarvard University in 1959, and his Ph.D. in English fromYale University in 1968.Speech Synthesis
Ignatius Mattingly [http://www.haskins.yale.edu/staff/IGM.html] , working with British collaborators, John N. Holmes [http://www.amazon.co.uk/Speech-Synthesis-Recognition-John-Holmes/dp/0748408576] and J.N. Shearme [http://scitation.aip.org/getabs/servlet/GetabsServlet?prog=normal&id=JASMAN000035000011001911000004&idtype=cvips&gifs=yes] , 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 areading machine for the blind combined Mattingly's program with an automatic look-up procedure for converting alphabetic text into strings ofphonetic symbols. [ [http://www.haskins.yale.edu/sciencespoken.html Haskins Laboratories, "The Science of the Spoken and Written Word"] ] 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.]External links
* [http://www.haskins.yale.edu/staff/IGM.html Haskins Laboratories Mattingly page]
* [http://festvox.org/history/klatt.html Klatt Record Audio Examples - first prosodic synthesis by rule by Mattingly]
* [http://www.mindspring.com/~ssshp/ssshp_cd/ss_nsa.htm Smithsonian Speech Synthesis History Project]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
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