Gestural reduction in nasal place assimilation: An EPG and EMA analysis

• Mitsuhiro Nakamura ^[1]
  1. [1] Nihon University

     Nihon University

     Japón

     
• Localización: Tendencias actuales en fonética experimental: cruce de disciplinas en el centenario del "Manual de Pronunciación Española" (Tomás Navarro Tomás) : [CIFE 2017 : VII Congreso Internacional de Fonética Experimental, Madrid 22-24/11/17] / coord. por Victoria Marrero Aguiar, Eva Estebas Vilaplana; Silvia Carmen Barreiro Bilbao (col.), Juan María Garrido Almiñana (col.), María Beatriz Pérez Cabello de Alba (col.), Nuria Polo Cano (col.), 2017, ISBN 978-84-697-7855-5, págs. 66-70
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This study reports on the continuing investigation into the articulatory nature of nasal place assimilation across word boundaries in British English. Variable realisations of the tongue tip gesture for the word-final /n/s are examined using the EMA and EPG data collected from the multichannel articulatory database, MOCHA-TIMIT. The results show that (i) the complete reduction of the tongue tip gesture is dominant and the partial reduction is not common, (ii) vertial positions of the tongue tip vary significantly with the membership of word class, namely the content/function word distinciton, and (iii) the effects of phonetic contexts are found to be nonsignificant. Cognitive representations of articulatory tasks are discussed and the implications for further research on nasal place assimilation will be presented.