Haskins Publications

Number	960
Year	1993
Drawer	18
Entry Date	07/13/1998
Authors	Recasens, Daniel, Farnetani, Edda, Fontdevila, Jordi, and Pallarès, Maria Dolors.
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Publication	Language and Speech, 36 (2,3), 213-234.
url	http://www.haskins.yale.edu/Reprints/HL0960.pdf
Abstract	Electropalatographic data for Catalan and Italian reported in this paper reveal the existence of two categories of palatal consonants, namely, alveolopalatals ( [≠], [¥])))) ) and palatals proper ( [j] ). All these consonants are produced with a single place of articulation and thus are not good candidates for complex segments involving a tongue front articulator and a tongue dorsum articulator. A higher degree of coupling between the primary articulator and other tongue regions for alveopalatals and palatals than for alveolar [n] accounts for a reduced sensitivity to coarticulatory effects for the former vs. the latter. Alveolarpalatal correlations reported in this study support the notion of relative independence between different tongue articulators for non-dorsal vs. dorsal consonants. Differences in articulation and coarticulation were found for Italian vs. Catalan. In comparison with their Catalan counterparts, Italian shows the following properties: Consonants are more anterior, [n] allows less coarticulation at the alveolar zone (in line with the laminal nature of the consonant), and long alveolopalatals exhibit more contact and less coarticulation at the front palatal zone.
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