Abstract
Previous studies on several Indo‐European languages have shown that for strings of two rounded vowels separated by phonologically rounding‐neutral consonants, both EMG and lip protrusion movement traces show double peaks coincident with the two rounded vowels plus an intervening “trough” [Bell‐Berti and Harris, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 71, 449–454 (1982); Perkell, Speech Commun. 5, 47–68]. This has been interpreted as due to independent rounding gestures associated with each vowel and as counterevidence to the claim that rounding coarticulation is anticipatory. In this paper, English speakers' production of nonsense words /kuktluk/, /kuktuk/, /kukuk/, /kutuk/, and /kuluk/ will be compared with that of speakers of Turkish, a language with strong constraints against the cooccurence of rounded and unfounded vowels in the same word. Both movement and EMG evidence will be used to argue that the trough phenomenon is more extensive in English than in Turkish. Implications for cross‐language differences in coarticulat...
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