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

The Effect of Stress on Consonantal Loci

Augustine Agwuele

University of Texas at Austin, USA

The report presented in this paper concerns with the extent to which stress affects the locus of the consonant in V#CV sequences. Two stress positions [V₁CV₂and V₁CV₂] were studied. Locus equations coefficients were used to determine the degree to which carryover of vocalic gestures from a stressed segment impact the onset of C in the following unstressed segment, and the extent to which the presence of stress on V₂ reflects on the locus of C. The results show that stress is a significant factor under the two conditions. In both test cases, V₂, regardless of stress, closely affects the consonantal locus than V₁. However, the degree of V₂'s influence on C is significantly reduced when V₁ is stressed, and enhanced when V₂ is stressed.

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Bibliographic reference.  Agwuele, Augustine (2003): "The effect of stress on consonantal loci", In ICPhS-15, 787-790.