Haskins Publications

Number	998
Year	1996
Drawer	18
Entry Date	07/01/1998
Authors	Romero, Joaquín.
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Publication	Journal of Phonetics, 24, 99-111.
url	http://www.haskins.yale.edu/Reprints/HL0998.pdf
Abstract	This paper presents some data on the articulatory nature of assimilatory processes in Spanish consonant clusters. The nature of those assimilations is explored in the light of some of the theoretical assumptions concerning assimilation suggest in the theory of Articulatory Phonology. Differences in articulatory configurations will be assessed qualitatively with respect to the different articulators associated with the production of a particular consonant or group of consonants. Also, the relationship between a consonant's specifications for constriction location and constriction degree will be studied for these Spanish data. The results point toward a view of assimilation that operates at the level of the whole gesture, not its spatial and temporal specifications, such that constriction location and constriction degree do not assimilate independently. This proposal is consistent with a view of articulatory gestures as the minimal units of phonological organization.
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