@inproceedings{HooleWismuellerLeinsingeretal.2016, author = {Philip Hoole and Axel Wismueller and Gerda Leinsinger and Christian Kroos and Anja Geumann and Michiko Inoue}, title = {Analysis of tongue configuration in multi-speaker, multi-volume MRI data}, series = {5th Seminar on Speech Production: Models and Data \& CREST - Workshop on Models of Speech Production: Motor Planning and Articulatory Modelling. May 1st to 4th, 2000, Kloster Seeon, Bavaria, Germany}, editor = {Philip Hoole}, url = {https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-56783}, year = {2016}, abstract = {MRI data of German vowels and consonants was acquired for 9 speakers. In this paper tongue contours for the vowels were analyzed using the three-mode factor analysis technique PARAFAC. After some difficulties, probably related to what constitutes an adequate speaker sample for this three-mode technique to work, a stable two-factor solution was extracted that explained about 90\% of the variance. Factor 1 roughly captured the dimension low back to high front; Factor 2 that from mid front to high back. These factors are compared with earlier models based on PARAFAC. These analyses were based on midsagittal contours; the paper concludes by illustrating from coronal and axial sections how non-midline information could be incorporated into this approach.}, language = {en} }