Louis M. Goldstein

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Louis M. Goldstein is an American linguist and cognitive scientist. He was previously a professor and chair of the Department of Linguistics and a professor of psychology at Yale University^[1] and is now a professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Southern California.^[2] He is a senior scientist at Haskins Laboratories in New Haven, Connecticut,^[3] and a founding member of the Association for Laboratory Phonology. Notable students of Goldstein include Douglas Whalen and Elizabeth Zsiga.

He is best known for the development, with Catherine Browman, of the theory of articulatory phonology, a gesture-based approach to phonological and phonetic structure. The theoretical approach is incorporated in a computational model^[4] that generates speech from a gesturally-specified lexicon. Goldstein, Philip Rubin, and Mark Tiede designed a revision of the articulatory synthesis model, known as CASY,^[5] the Configurable Articulatory Synthesizer. This three-dimensional model of the vocal tract permits researchers to replicate MRI images of actual speakers and has been used to study the relation between speech production and perception.