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Why did coarticulation evolve?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 April 1998

Ignatius G. Mattingly
Affiliation:
Haskins Laboratories, New Haven, CT 06511 ignatius@uconnvm.uconn.edu www.haskins.yale.edu
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Abstract

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The locus equation proposal ignores a fundamental difference between human speech perception and nonhuman echolocation and sound localization, offers a questionable account of the function of consonant-vowel coarticulation, and is further undermined if the effects of other forms of coarticulation are considered. The function of coarticulation is to convey phonetic information rapidly and reliably.

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© 1998 Cambridge University Press