Abstract
Recent work on vowel‐to‐vowel coarticulation [e.g., Krakow and Manuel (1984), Magen (1984)] has identified language specific coarticulatory patterns. These include differences in relative strength of carryover versus anticipatory coarticulation (sometimes called “directionality”) and differences in the freedom of vowels to vary. Such results suggest that coarticulatory patterns of individual language are more complicated than was thought previously. The present study examines vowel‐to‐vowel coarticulation in English with respect to several variables, primarily stress and consonant manner of articulation. Tokens recorded were of the form VCV and bVCəCVb, where the vowel was one of /i,a,u/ and the consonant was one of /l,d,r/. These nonsense words were said in a frame, with stress on the first or the last syllable. Formant frequencies were measured, using LPC analysis, at several points in these tokens. Our data suggest that stress of the affected vowel influences amount of carryover coarticulation more than stress of the affecting vowel does. Other results include indications that coarticulatory directionality can vary within a single language; here both identity of the consonant and stress play a role. [Work supported by NSF.]
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