Anticipatory Coarticulation in Vowel-Consonant-Vowel sequences : A crosslinguistic study of French and Mandarin speakers

Anticipatory coarticulation within V1CV2 sequences is studied for two different languages, French and Mandarin. EMMA data and acoustic signals were collected for 3 speakers of each language. The corpus was consistent with one another in both languages, V1 and V2 being one of the set /i,a,u/ and C being either /t/ or /k/. The influences of V2 on V1 and of V2 on C were more specifically analyzed in this paper. Our results suggest that anticipatory coarticulation takes into account the whole sequence V1CV2 for the speakers of French, while it is strictly limited to the syllable CV2 for the speakers of Mandarin.

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