ISCA Archive SPM 1996
ISCA Archive SPM 1996

EMA/EPG study of lingual coarticulation in /kl/ clusters

William Hardcastle, Béatrice Vaxelaire, F. Gibbon, Philip Hoole, N. Nguyen

Previous cross-linguistic work using EPG has shown a more posterior placement of the tongue for velars in /kl/ clusters than in singleton /k/. This question is explored further in a combined EPG/EMA experiment. Results showed different trajectories of the tongue body for the Dd in cluster and singleton environments e.g. a "looping" trajectory of the tongue body observed during the singleton /k/ was inhibited during the cluster. The results show the advantages of combining EMA with EPG data for analysing lingual dynamics.