Coarticulation is considered to be constrained by language specific grammar. In particular, prosodic units, which have an important function in organizing speech, are likely to affect the extent of coarticulation. The present study addresses the question of the relationship between V-to-V coarticulation and bimoraic foot in Japanese. It was shown that the foot boundary constrains the extent of coarticulation. It was also shown that both within- and across-foot, anticipatory effects are stronger than carryover effects in Japanese.
Cite as: Kondo, Y., Arai, Y. (1998) Prosodic constraint on v-to-v coarticulation in Japanese. Proc. 5th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP 1998), paper 0186, doi: 10.21437/ICSLP.1998-730
@inproceedings{kondo98_icslp,
author={Yuko Kondo and Yumiko Arai},
title={{Prosodic constraint on v-to-v coarticulation in Japanese}},
year=1998,
booktitle={Proc. 5th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP 1998)},
pages={paper 0186},
doi={10.21437/ICSLP.1998-730}
}