Coarticulatory phenomena analysis in English based on the articulatory phonology
Keywords:
Coarticulation, Perception, Production, Articulatory phonologyAbstract
During the speech production process, native speakers of English tend to coarticulate the phonemic segments that comprise the words so that a reduction in the movement of the articulators takesplace. Such reduction modifies the phonemic segment productioncausing perception difficulties by Brazilian learners of English.Furthermore, these learners hyperarticulate segments thatare usually reduced by native speakers, which causes a greater articulatory effort and hampers the segment production. Due to these factors, we have carried out a study to investigate the coarticulatory effects that exist in the English language speech production based on the articulatory phonology. The study revealed that the native speaker of English used a strategy characterized by not including a pause between the words in the contextswhich were analyzed and by using the strategies called blending andhiding.
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