1993/04/01 by Daniel Recasens, Edda Farnetani, Jordi Fontdevila +1 · 44 citations
Psychology · Computer Science · Medicine · Mathematics · #Phonetics and Phonology Research #Speech Recognition and Synthesis #Voice and Speech Disorders #Articulator #Coarticulation #Catalan #Articulation (sociology) #Tongue #Place of articulation #Dorsum #Consonant #Mathematics #Orthodontics #Anatomy #Linguistics #Vowel #Speech recognition #Medicine #Computer science
paper · doi:10.1177/002383099303600306
published in Language and Speech 36(2-3), 213-234 (SAGE Publishing)
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Electropalatographic data for Catalan and Italian reported in this paper reveal the existence of two categories of palatal consonants, namely, alveolopalatals ([n], [lambda]) 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 alveolopalatals and palatals than for alveolar [n] accounts for a reduced sensitivity to coarticulatory effects for the former vs. the latter. Alveolar-palatal 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.