This investigation deals with the production of consonant sequences in French, with particular focus on overlap of labial, apical, tongue-dorsum and velar gestures. X-ray and acoustic data are obtained for two speakers, at two speaking rates, normal-conversational and fast. Speech rate is varied in order to explore gestural overlapping possibilities, when places of articulation differ between plosives. Results show that: anticipatory coarticulation is not systematically predominant; anticipatory or perseverative coarticulation may or may not occur depending on similarity/dissimilarity in place of articulation between contiguous consonants; vowels are less resistant than consonants to velar coarticulation; speech rate facilitates gestural overlap. Findings are explained in terms of biomechanical and viable linguistic constraints.
Cite as: Vaxelaire, B., Sock, R., Perrier, P. (2000) Gestural overlap, place of articulation and speech rate - an x-ray investigation. Proc. 6th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP 2000), vol. 2, 166-169, doi: 10.21437/ICSLP.2000-235
@inproceedings{vaxelaire00_icslp,
author={Béatrice Vaxelaire and Rudolph Sock and Pascal Perrier},
title={{Gestural overlap, place of articulation and speech rate - an x-ray investigation}},
year=2000,
booktitle={Proc. 6th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP 2000)},
pages={vol. 2, 166-169},
doi={10.21437/ICSLP.2000-235}
}