CONSONANTAL COARTICULATION RESISTANCE IN VOWEL-CONSONANT-VOWEL SEQUENCES

Simone Graetzer
University of Melbourne

ID 1315
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Formant two distribution for Arrernte and Burarra, two Australian languages, at V1-offset and V2-onset in V1CV2 sequences, reveals that phonemic voiceless plosive consonants differ in coarticulation resistance. While the two languages display slightly dissimilar patterns of resistance, they share a strong tendency towards greater variation in V1-offset, suggesting that the effects of coarticulation resistance are strongest immediately after intervocalic consonants in these languages.