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Abstract

This paper presents a study of the sources of cross-linguistic variation in anticipatory labial coarticulation. We collected audiovisual data from speakers of German and American English, two languages distinguished by the presence of phonological rounding contrast for vowels, to examine (i) how patterns of coarticulation differ in these languages and (ii) to what extent such patterns are speaker-specific.

Our results indicate that anticipatory labial coarticulation is temporally extensive in both German and English. While our data demonstrate that in both languages there is considerable variability between speakers in their individual degree of coarticulation, there is nonetheless an overarching influence of language on the patterns of coarticulation. In particular, anticipatory coarticulation is less extensive and more constrained in German than in English. These findings contribute to our understanding of the roles of phonological contrast and speaker variability in the temporal organization of anticipatory coarticulation.

Publication Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Additional Information:	This in an open access publication licensed by the authors of papers under the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license
Publisher Keywords:	Lip rounding; coarticulation; individual variation; language specificity; speech production
Subjects:	P Language and Literature > P Philology. Linguistics R Medicine > RC Internal medicine
Departments:	School of Health & Medical Sciences School of Health & Medical Sciences > Language & Communication Science
SWORD Depositor:	Symplectic Administrator

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