Abstract
Recent behavioral research suggests that listeners hearing words containing segments that have undergone place assimilation are able to recover the underlying form of the modified segment and anticipate the place of the segment that triggers assimilation. The present study contrasts acoustic place cues in unmodified coronals, assimilated underlying coronals, and underlying noncoronals in connected read speech in an attempt to characterize the nature of acoustic modification produced by place assimilation, and to understand how a single segment might encode the places of articulation of two segments. Adult male and female speakers produced triplets of sentences showing this three-way contrast across a variety of consonants and vowel contexts. Acoustic measures examined formant transitions and relative amplitudes. The implications of the results of these analyses for the the structure of acoustic categories for place information and the abstract representation of place are discussed.
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