Study on the Anticipatory Coariticulatory Effect of Chinese Disyllabic Sequences

In this study, the Vowel-to-Vowel (V-to-V) coarticulatory effect in the Vowel-Consonant-Vowel (VCV) sequences is investigated, and the F2 offset value of the first vowel is analyzed. Results show that, in the trans-segment context, anticipatory coarticulation exists in Chinese. Due to high articulatory strength of aspirated obstruents, in the context of subsequent vowel /i/, the V1 F2 offset value is higher in the context of aspirated stops than the unaspirated ones. Results from this study are not in accordance with the DAC prediction, which implies that the pattern of degrees of articulatory constraint is not consistent among languages.