An increasing number of studies has linked certain types of articulatory or acoustic variability with speech errors, but no study has yet examined the relationship between such articulatory variability and acoustics. The present study aims to evaluate the acoustic properties of articulatorily errorful /k/ and /t/ stimuli, to determine whether these errors are consistently reflected in the acoustics. The most frequent error observed in the articulatory

This study systematically investigates the temporal organization of American English onset and coda consonant clusters on the basis of kinematic data. Results from seven speakers suggest that consonants in complex onsets are organized globally with respect to the following vowel, while consonants in complex codas are organized locally relative to the preceding vowel. These results support the competitive coupling model hypothesized for complex onsets,

Articulatorily, onset consonants differ from coda consonants in their spatial as well as their temporal characteristics in that onsets exhibit greater spatial displacement and are generally less variable than codas. As to their temporal organization, it has been claimed that onsets, but not codas exhibit a so-called c-center organization in which all consonant gestures of a cluster are organized as a single complex structure with respect to the vowel,

An increasing number of studies have elicited speech errors in articulatory experiments, and thus evaluated errors on the basis of their articulatory properties, yet there has been no study that relates the articulatory variability observed in errors to the acoustic consequences. The present study aims to evaluate the acoustic properties of errorfulerror-free [k] and [t] stimuli with known articulatory configurations (and articulatorily categorized

This study systematically investigates the temporal organization of American English onset and coda consonant clusters on the basis of kinematic data. Results suggest that consonants in complex onsets are organized globally with respect to the following vowel (c-center organization), while consonants in complex codas are coordinated sequentially. These results support the competitive coupling model hypothesized for complex onsets, and is also consistent

This paper presents an articulatory modeling of the alternation between Romanian diphthong ea and unstressed vowel e, starting from the hypothesis that the representation of Romanian diphthongs is that of two vowels synchronously coordinated. Stimuli are created to examine the effect of this synchronous coordination in the absence of stress, and two perceptual experiments show that synchronously coordinated vowels [e] and [a] result in the percept

I present an experimental study that induces a postlexical synchronous coordination between two vowels across word boundary, as a way to test a specific articulatory phonology hypothesis regarding Romanian lexical diphthongs [ea]/[oa]. The observed postlexical effects are comparable to alternations in Romanian phonology between lexical diphthongs and unstressed vowels, supporting the hypothesis that the phonological representation of Romanian diphthongs

This paper uses new evidence from elicited production experiments to establish that Romanian children do not omit either direct or indirect object clitics at a significant rate. The results reported for the acquisition of indirect object clitics are particularly significant in that, for the first time, it is possible to demonstrate the similarity between the acquisition of direct and indirect object clitics in Romanian and, arguably, for other languages

This paper examines complex nuclei, as an instance of syllable complexity, taking as a concrete example the Romanian phonological diphthong /ea/. This paper proposes a theoretical Articulatory Phonology analysis of complex nucleus effects and provides experimental evidence that such a proposal is warranted and preferable to existing analyses.