1st ETRW on Speech Production Modeling: From Control Strategies to Acoustics 4th Speech Production Seminar: Models and Data Autrans, France May 20-24, 1996

Coarticulatory Effects on Kinematic Parameters of Rhotics in German

Christine Mooshammer (1), Niels O. Schiller (2)

(1) Zentrum fur Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Berlin, Germany
(2) Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

This study focusses on effects of VCV coarticulation on the production of /r/ sounds in German. The two main variants of /r/ in contemporary New High German, apical and uvular /r/, were investigated in different vowel contexts. Acoustic and articulatory analyses were carried out separately for both variants of/r/. By means of the acoustic analysis different forms of realization (trills, taps, fricatives or approximants) were identified. The realizations within the same class of /r/-variant did not show any significant durational differences. In the articulatory analysis the coarticulation was examined. Whereas the anticipatory effects were rather weak, strong carry-over effects could be observed.

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Bibliographic reference.  Mooshammer, Christine / Schiller, Niels O. (1996): "Coarticulatory effects on kinematic parameters of rhotics in German", In SPM-1996, 25-28.