In two picture-word interference experiments we examined whether phrase boundaries affected how far in advance speakers plan the sounds of words during sentence production. Participants produced sentences of varying lengths (short determiner + noun + verb or long determiner + adjective + noun + verb) while ignoring phonologically related and unrelated words to the verb of the sentence. Response...

Language development in persons with cri du chat syndrome (CDCS) has only been described in very general terms. Three tendencies have been noted in the literature: First of all, there is a discrepancy between chronological age and linguistic age in children with CDCS. Second, there is a discrepancy between receptive and expressive linguistic abilities in these children. Third, their articulatio...

UNLABELLED Phonological Disorder is a disturbance of primary manifestation of undefined causes that makes speech become unintelligible. The analysis of vocal parameters becomes important in the process of diagnosis of this disorder, since voice disorders could interfere in the production of speech sounds. AIM The objective of this study was to verify vocal characteristics related to the inten...

Indigenous Australian languages are said to show remarkable stability in C1C2 sequences with no evidence of assimilation of place of articulation. An EPG corpus of Warlpiri was examined to test the extent of spatio-temporal modification in a series of nasal and lateral/oral stop clusters that differed in place of articulation. There was evidence of limited anticipatory coarticulation in nasal c...

This study explores articulatory and coarticulatory properties of the coronal stop articulations [ , , ] in Japanese, using the technique of electropalatography (EPG). We examine the spatiotemporal characteristics of linguopalatal contact patterns, closure duration, and intergestural coordination, relating them to factors of the articulatory control mechanisms. The results bear on issues in mod...

How can system constraints and phonological output demands influence articulation in a L2speaker? When measuring durations and articulator movements for some Swedish /V C/ and /VC / words, pronounced by a Swedish and a Polish speaker, it appeared that phonological vowel length was realized very similarly by both speakers, while complementary consonant length was applied only by the native Swedi...

The labial flap is a speech sound which has received little attention in the literature. In this paper, we document the articulation of the sound, including audio and video data from Mono (D.R. Congo, Ubangian). The sound is attested in over sixty languages and has been incorporated into the phonological system of at least a dozen of them. The sound is easily describable in terms of values of p...

This study examines the effects of prosody on the acoustic cues of stop consonants, based on speech from the Boston University Radio News corpus. An investigation of VOT, f0, closure duration, burst amplitude and spectral characteristics provide evidence for a primary effect of accent (a level of phrasal prominence) on these measures as cues to stop voicing and/or place of articulation. There a...

Manner of articulation, including airstream mechanism, is not known to systematically affect place of articulation (cf. Hoole et. al., 1998). If such a systematic relation were identified, it could provide new ways of understanding how aerodynamics is integrated into the phonetic and phonological representation of speech sounds. However, there is currently little articulatory evidence of how th...