Articulatory strengthening in initial German /kl/ clusters under prosodic variation

Lasse Bombien (1) , Christine Mooshammer (2) , Phil Hoole (1) , Tamara Rathcke (1) , Barbara Kühnert (3)

1 IPS - Institute of Phonetics and Speech Processing
2 IPDS - Institute of Phonetics and Digital Signal Processing
3 LPP - LPP - Laboratoire de Phonétique et Phonologie - UMR 7018

Abstract
This study investigates the effects of varying prosodic boundary strength and lexical stress on domain initial /kl/ clusters in German by means of Electropalatography (EPG). Recordings of 7 subjects were analyzed using temporal and spatial parameters derived from the EPG data. Temporal and spatial parameters show that boundary effects are stronger for the first consonant while in the temporal domain stress affects the second consonant rather than the first. Overlap was found to be greater in unstressed position and at lower prosodic boundaries. Furthermore, /kl/ appears to be more susceptible to stress effects when not preceded by a boundary.

Keywords: electropalatgraphy; intonation; prosody; lexical stress; articulatory stengthening; German

Domains: Linguistics

Lasse Bombien, Christine Mooshammer, Phil Hoole, Tamara Rathcke, Barbara Kühnert. Articulatory strengthening in initial German /kl/ clusters under prosodic variation. International Congress of Phonetic Sciences XVI, Aug 2007, Saarbrücken, Germany. pp. 457-460. ⟨halshs-00185736⟩