COORDINATION PATTERNS BETWEEN PITCH MOVEMENTS AND ORAL GESTURES IN CATALAN

Pilar Prieto1, Doris Mücke2, Johannes Becker2 & Martine Grice2
1ICREA-Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona; 2IfL Phonetik-University of Cologne

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In this paper, we investigate the coordination rela-tions between F0 turning points in bitonal pitch accents and landmarks of dynamically defined ar-ticulatory gestures in Catalan, using kinematic and acoustic data on three pitch accent types. Electro-magnetic articulography data (EMMA) reveals that the end of pitch movements for two rising and one falling accent are tightly synchronized with the peak velocity of the oral closing gestures (such as tongue tip raising) during the production of vowel-consonant sequences.