Haskins Publications

Number	386
Year	1982
Drawer	7
Entry Date	11/19/1999
Authors	Henderson, J. B., & Repp, B. H.
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Publication	Phonetica, 39, 71-82.
url	http://www.haskins.yale.edu/Reprints/HL0386.pdf
Abstract	To examine the claim that for nonhomorganic stop cons sequences, articulatory release of the first stop has no observable acoustic consequences, sentences produced by 6 native speakers of American English were recorded at a conversational rate. Sentences contained word-internal sequences of two nonhomorganic stops, either across a syllable boundary or in word-final position. Oscillograms of the critical words revealed that release bursts of the first stop occurred in the majority of tokens, except in those where the second stop was bilabial. The bursts were acoustically rather weak & difficult to detect by ear, which may account for their having been neglected in the literature. Instead of a simple "released-unreleased" distinction, five classification categories are proposed that use articulatory, acoustic, perceptual, & contrastive phonetic criteria.
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