EFFECT OF STRESS ON COARTICULATION

Effects of varying positions of stress from V1 to V2 on VCV sequences were examined. Preliminary results, mainly from the second formant, show that F2 (onset) in CV syllables are influenced by the position of the stressed. For instance, when V1 is stressed and V2 unstressed, V1 exerts a significant influence on the onset of CV2 (perseveratory coarticulation). In contrast when V2 is stressed and V1 unstressed, this effect is negligible. The present analysis offers the possibility of zooming in on systematic details not captured by the locus equations metric