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Abstract

This paper compares anticipatory nasal coarticulation in American English, French, and German. These languages differ in whether nasality is contrastive (French), phonologized but not contrastive (American English), or neither (German). We measure nasal intensity during a specific temporal interval preceding a nasal or oral control consonant. In English, coarticulation has the greatest temporal extent whereas in French, anticipatory nasalization is more constrained. German differs from English, but not French. While results confirm some of the expected languagespecific effects, they underscore that the temporal extent of anticipatory nasal coarticulation can be greater than often reported if this is allowed for by the stimulus material. For all languages, the onset of coarticulation may considerably precede the prenasal vowel in VN sequences, especially so for English. Overall, our data further add to our understanding of the non-local temporal scope of anticipatory coarticulation and its language specific expressions.

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:	nasality, anticipatory coarticulation, phonological contrast, long-distance coarticulation
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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