Abstract
Troughs, which are a discontinuity in anticipatory coarticulation (Perkell 1968), have been shown to occur in the tongue body in /ipi/ and lips in /usu/. An electromagnetic articulometer (EMA) study of a single subject reported previously showed that intraoral pressure during the consonant could not be solely responsible for the downwards tongue body movement observed during the labial consonants (/p, b, m, f, v/); results supported the hypothesis of a secondary tongue gesture during the consonant. Lip troughs during /s/ in rounded contexts were more ambiguous, possibly because of inconsistencies in corpus design. Six new subjects have been recorded using a WAVE EMA system and a revised corpus. Tongue trough magnitudes decreased in the order /f, v/ > /p, b/ > /m/, serving to disprove the aerodynamic hypothesis; they were deeper for long than short consonants (e.g., [iffi] > [ifi]), and converged to the same point in asymmetric vowel contexts. The same type of convergence during the consonant was observed ...
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