| Abstract | A series of two electromyographic experiments was designed to determine the nature of the muscular activity underlying the articulation of CVC syllables in which identical vowels differed in duration because of the voicing characteristic of the consonant which followed them. Results indicate that the most reasonable hypothesis explaining the durational differences is the one which posits a sustention of muscular activity in the articulatory gesture of the vowel preceding voiced consonants, relative to the gesture for vowels preceding voiceless consonants. It is noted that the acoustically determined differences between vowels, the differences between the durations of the muscular-articulatory gestures for the vowels, and the temporal displacement of the final consonant peaks generally show remarkably similar values. |
|---|
