Anticipatory Coarticulation in a Specific Context

In Hungarian casual speech, [n] may not be fully pronounced before continuant consonants. In this paper the durational changes of the vowel and the nasal as well as the formants of the vowel were analyzed in VNC sequences. The spreading coarticulatory effect in these sequences is supposed to originate from the continuant C (fricatives and approximants) that modifies the [n] articulation. The results show that there is a strong spreading anticipatory coarticulation leading to significant changes in the duration of the vowels and the nasals preceding fricatives and approximants. The coarticulation affects the F2-value of the vowel as well.