Abstract
It has been claimed that French voiced and unvoiced stops could also characterized as lenis and fortis consonants. Some authors even suggest that the force of articulation might be the most relevant factor for distinguishing (and phonologically specifying) stop cognates. Using electropalatography, we investigated the consequences of the voicing and devoicing assimilations upon the surface of the linguo-palatal contact area for French consonants. Our data indicates that (1) force of articulation and voicing are not necessarily redundant features: (2) force of articulation may be assimilated too; (3) the direction of the coarticulatory movement is an important parameter with regard to changes in the intrinsic force of articulation.
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