Haskins Publications

Number	1171
Year	2000
Drawer	22
Entry Date	08/02/2000
Authors	Fowler, C.A., & Brancazio, L.
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Publication	Language and Speech, 43(1), 1-41.
url	http://www.haskins.yale.edu/Reprints/HL1171.pdf
Abstract	We explored the variation in the resistance that lingual and nonlingual consonants exhibit to coarticulation by following vowels in the schwa+CV disyllables of two native speakers of English. Generally, lingual consonants other than /g/ were more resistant to coarticulation than the labial consonants /b/ and /v/. Coarticulation resistance in the consonant also affected articulatory evidence for transconsonantal vowel-to-vowel coarticulation, but did not show consistent acoustic effects. As for effects of coarticulation resistance in the following vowel, articulatory and acoustic effects were quite large at consonant release but much weaker farther into the following stressed vowel. Correlations between coarticulation resistance effects at consonant release and locus equation slopes were highly significant, consistent with the view that variation in coarticulation resistance explains differences among consonants in locus equation slopes.
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