A production study on controlled coarticulation: a case of contextual fronting of /u/ in American English
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The study reported in this paper addresses the question of whether in American English fronting of the high back vowel /u/ in alveolar contexts is the result of physical and physiological constraints alone or it is under the speakers‟ deliberate control. If fronting of /u/ is a result of purely biomechanical constraints, then the production of the fronted variant does not require any specification in the input to the motor control system. However, if the fronted variant is produced by the speaker‟s deliberate control over the articulatory sequence of the alveolar consonant and the vowel /u/, then such control requires context-specific target specification for the vowel. What the question asks, then, is this: do speakers maintain two separate articulation targets for fronted and non-fronted variants of /u/?
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