GESTURAL PHASING IN /KT/ SEQUENCES CONTRASTING WITHIN AND CROSS WORD CONTEXTS

Mark Tiede1, Stefanie Shattuck-Hufnagel2, Beth Johnson3, Satrajit Ghosh2, Melanie Matthies4, Madjid Zandipour2 & Joseph Perkell2
1MIT R.L.E. & Haskins Laboratories; 2MIT R.L.E.; 3Yale University; 4Boston University & MIT R.L.E.

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This work presents results of an EMMA study of the articulatory phasing between successive /k/ and /t/ gestures in English tautosyllabic ("pact op") and heterosyllabic ("pack top") contexts, varied by speaking rate and stress. Although subjects responded idiosyncratically, in general coda clusters are shown to be significantly less variable in timing than heterosyllabic sequences relative to the labial gestures of the carrier context.