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15th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS-15)Barcelona, Spain |
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The goal of this research was to assess the effect of syllable structure
and stop place on the strength of bidirectional coarticulation in VCV
utterances. Frequencies of F2 transitions were measured at VC and
CV boundaries in open (V.CV) and closed (VC.V) syllable forms in five
speakers of American English. Medial stops varied across place and
voicing (/bpdtgk/). Carryover and anticipatory coarticulation were
measured by comparing the difference in F2 offsets of V1 (anticipatory)
and F2 onsets of V2 (carryover) across four 'fixed' vowel (/i/, /e/,
/u/, and /ɔ/) and two 'changing' vowel contexts (/i/, /ɔ/).
Results showed a significant syllable x coarticulation interaction
with closed syllables favoring carryover and open syllables favoring
anticipatory coarticulation. Only alveolar stops /dt/ failed to reveal
greater anticipatory than carryover effects in open syllables.
Bibliographic reference. Modarresi, Golnaz / Sussman, Harvey M. (2003): "The effect of syllable structure on bidirectional coarticulation", In ICPhS-15, 3197-3200.