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...

The purpose of this report is to test the hypothesis that speakers utilize an acoustic, rather than articulatory, planning space for speech production. It has been well-documented that many speakers of American English use different tongue configurations to produce /r/ in different phonetic contexts. The acoustic planning hypothesis suggests that although the lr/ configuration varies widely in ...