15th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS-15) Barcelona, Spain August 3-9, 2003

A Numerical Model of Coarticulation Based on a Principal Components Analysis of Tongue Shapes

Björn Lindblom

Stockholms Universitet, Sweden

A numerical PCA-based account of tongue shapes is presented. The data are compatible with the assumption that a single context-independent control command may underlie the production of [d] as well as the front-back allophones of [g]. The findings furthermore suggest that vowel-dependent coarticulation can be seen as a form of 'incomplete interpolation' (undershoot).

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Bibliographic reference.  Lindblom, Björn (2003): "A numerical model of coarticulation based on a principal components analysis of tongue shapes", In ICPhS-15, 427-430.