TY  - JOUR
A1  - Sotiropoulou, Stavroula
A1  - Gibson, Mark
A1  - Gafos, Adamantios I.
T1  - Global organization in Spanish onsets
JF  - Journal of phonetics
N2  - This paper addresses the relation between syllable structure and inter-segmental temporal coordination. The data examined are Electromagnetic Articulometry recordings from six speakers of Central Peninsular Spanish (henceforth, Spanish), producing words beginning with the clusters /pl, bl, kl, gl, p(sic), k(sic), t(sic)/ as well as corresponding unclustered sonorant-initial words in three vowel contexts /a, e, o/. In our results, we find evidence for a global organization of the segments involved in these combinations. This is reflected in a number of ways: shortening of the prevocalic sonorant in the cluster-initial case compared to the unclustered case, reorganization of the relative timing of the internal CV subsequence (in a CCV) in the obstruent-lateral context, early vowel initiation, and a strong compensatory relation between the duration of the obstruent-to-lateral transition and the duration of the lateral. In other words, we find that the global organization presiding over the segments partaking in these tautosyllabic CCVs is pleiotropic, that is, simultaneously expressed over a set of different phonetic parameters rather than via a privileged metric such as c-center stability or any other such given single measure (employed in prior works).
KW  - syllables
KW  - inter-segmental coordination
KW  - Central Peninsular Spanish
KW  - obstruent-lateral clusters
KW  - obstruent-rhotic clusters
Y1  - 2020
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wocn.2020.100995
SN  - 0095-4470
VL  - 82
PB  - Elsevier
CY  - London
ER  -