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

EMA/EPG Study of Lingual Coarticulation in /kl/ Clusters

William Hardcastle (1), Béatrice Vaxelaire (2), F. Gibbon (1), Philip Hoole (3), N. Nguyen (4)

(1) Department of Speech and Language Sciences, QMC, Edinburgh, UK
(2) Institut de Phonétique de Strasbourg, USHS, France
(3) Institut fur Phonetik und Sprachliche Kommunikation, Universität München, Germany
(4) Department of Linguistics, University of Cambridge, UK

Previous cross-linguistic work using EPG has shown a more posterior placement of the tongue for velars in /kl/ clusters than in singleton /k/. This question is explored further in a combined EPG/EMA experiment. Results showed different trajectories of the tongue body for the Dd in cluster and singleton environments e.g. a "looping" trajectory of the tongue body observed during the singleton /k/ was inhibited during the cluster. The results show the advantages of combining EMA with EPG data for analysing lingual dynamics.

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Bibliographic reference.  Hardcastle, William / Vaxelaire, Béatrice / Gibbon, F. / Hoole, Philip / Nguyen, N. (1996): "EMA/EPG study of lingual coarticulation in /kl/ clusters", In SPM-1996, 53-56.