A new articulatory model GENTIANE, elaborated from an X-ray film built on a corpus of VCV sequences performed by a skilled French speaker, enabled us to analyse coarticulation of main consonant types in vowel contexts from a degrees of freedom approach. The data displayed an overall coarticulatory versatility, except for an absolute invariance in the labio-dental constriction point. For consonant types recruiting the tongue, the variance explained by the degrees of freedom of the model evidenced specific compensation strategies: tongue tip compensation betokened the common coronal status of the dental plosive and the post-alveolar fricative; whereas tongue dorsum compensation signed the dorsal nature of the velar plosive.
Cite as: Vilain, A., Abry, C., Badin, P. (1998) Coarticulation and degrees of freedom in the elaboration of a new articulatory plant: GENTIANE. Proc. 5th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP 1998), paper 0489, doi: 10.21437/ICSLP.1998-810
@inproceedings{vilain98_icslp,
author={Anne Vilain and Christian Abry and Pierre Badin},
title={{Coarticulation and degrees of freedom in the elaboration of a new articulatory plant: GENTIANE}},
year=1998,
booktitle={Proc. 5th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP 1998)},
pages={paper 0489},
doi={10.21437/ICSLP.1998-810}
}