Abstract
In English, velar elevation is greater for close than for open vowels and is also affected by adjacent consonants. In this study, we collected data on Hindi, a language in which the oral‐nasal contrast is phonologically relevant for both vowels and consonants, in addition to English, in which the oral‐nasal contrast for vowels is generally considered irrelevant. We investigated the effects of vowel height and consonantal environment on the degree of velar elevation and velopharyngeal opening using two procedures. The first involved simultaneous high‐speed films of velar height and electromyographic signals from the levator palatini muscle, and the second, high‐speed films of velopharyngeal opening and electromyographic signals from both the levator palatini and superior pharyngeal constrictor muscles. Data were collected for a series of vowels varying from close to open in four consonantal environments in both languages, and for an additional series of nasal vowels in Hindi. Comparative data on velar coarticulation in these two languages and in both nasal and oral vowels will be presented. [Work supported by NINCDS and BRS.]
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