Seminal work by Krakow (PhD. Diss., Yale University, 1989, Phonetics and Phonology 5, 87–116, 1993) has indicated that intrasegmental coordination of articulatory gestures varies systematically as a function of syllable position. Specifically, onset and coda nasals display different lag times between the velum and oral gestural components. In onset nasals, velum lowering is achieved roughly synchronously with oral constriction, while in codas, velum lowering precedes oral constriction. However, Krakow’s study was limited by its reliance on indirect measures of velum movement. Nor did her work examine nasals other than [m] or syllable organizations other than singleton onsets and codas. Our study employs real-time magnetic resonance imaging [Narayanan et al., J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 115, 1771–1776 (2004); Mathiak et al., Int. J. of Lang. & Comm. Disorders 35, 419–425 (2000)] to acquire direct information about the key vocal tract variables of velum aperture and oral constriction, thereby allowing the calculation of relative gestural timing. We investigate the effects of syllabification on interarticulatory timing in [n], and, in addition to examining codas and onsets, further consider juncture geminates spanning word boundaries. Preliminary real-time MRI results from one of three anticipated subjects do find the predicted timing difference for [n]. Further, we find that the relative timing in juncture geminates mirrors that of coda [n] but presents a velum aperture intermediate between coda and onset [n]. [Work supported by NIH.]