J. A. Scott Kelso, Betty Tuller, Eric Vatikiotis-Bateson and Carol A. Fowler (1984), “Functionally specific articulatory cooperation following jaw perturbations during speech: Evidence for coordinative structures”, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance 10(6): 812–832 — doi:10.1037/0096-1523.10.6.812
Key takeaways
Unread. From general knowledge and a course summary, to be checked against the text; the latencies in particular are not checked.
- Reciprocal compensation. When the jaw is unexpectedly loaded during an utterance, other articulators adjust within tens of milliseconds so the sound is still produced.
- Functional specificity. Which articulator compensates depends on the goal: for a bilabial stop the lips close the gap, and for a fricative the tongue adjusts while the lips do not.
- Why it matters. The unit of control is the task-specific grouping (a coordinative structure), not the individual muscle.
Standing in the record
Filed on 2026-10-11, among the readings for a name for the combined form
(the dancing couple, CASE-046). Reciprocal compensation under
perturbation was proposed in chat as a membership test sharper than mutual
entrainment (CLAIM-172). This is the paper that test would be
borrowed from. behavioral-integration comes first: many effectors act as
one. Not held in the anthology.