TY - JOUR A1 - Lialiou, Maria A1 - Sotiropoulou, Stavroula A1 - Gafos, Adamantios I. T1 - Spatiotemporal coordination in word-medial stop-lateral and s-stop clusters of American English JF - Phonetica : international journal of phonetic science N2 - This paper is concerned with the relation between syllabic organization and intersegmental spatiotemporal coordination using Electromagnetic Articulometry recordings from seven speakers of American English (henceforth, English). Whereas previous work on English has focused on word-initial clusters (preceding a vowel whose identity was not systematically varied), the present work examined word-medial clusters /pl, kl, sp, sk/ in the context of three different vowel heights (high, mid, low). Our results provide evidence for a global organization for the segments involved in these cluster-vowel combinations. This is reflected in a number of ways: compression of the prevocalic consonant and reduction of CV timing in the word-medial cluster case compared to its singleton paired word in both stop-lateral and s-stop clusters, early vowel initiation (as permitted by the clusters' phonetic properties), and presence of compensatory relations between phonetic properties of different segments or intersegmental transitions within each cluster. In other words, we find that the global organization presiding over the segments partaking in these word-medial tautosyllabic CCVs is pleiotropic, that is, simultaneously expressed in multiple phonetic exponents rather than via a privileged metric such as c-center stability or any other such given single measure employed in previous works. KW - American English KW - intersegmental coordination KW - s-stop clusters KW - stop-lateral clusters KW - syllabic structure Y1 - 2021 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1515/phon-2021-2010 SN - 0031-8388 SN - 1423-0321 VL - 78 IS - 5-6 SP - 385 EP - 433 PB - De Gruyter Mouton CY - Berlin ER -