Nov 15
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Farnetani/Recasens:2010
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Why is anticipatory coarticulation in Daniloff and Hammarberg's view
always deliberate?

In the case of phonetic segments, do non-audible influences of
neighboring phones have any (subconscious) effects on listeners?

What type of coarticulation effects could be caused by clicks, as used
in some African languages?

The presented models mainly explain coarticulatory effects in terms of
phonological factors, such as economical constraints regarding the
movement of the articulators. To what extent do these models account
for the influence of cognitive factors (e.g., attention or language
proficiency) on the degree of coarticulatory overlap in spontaneous
speech?

To what extent does the individual linguistic experience of a speaker
influence the degree of coarticulatory overlap? That is, the theories
described in the paper mostly account for the existence of
inter-language variability regarding coarticulation. However,
variability within a given language, which indicates that individual
factors have an impact on coarticulation, is rarely addressed.

The authors seem to agree with the window model of coarticulation and
disprove counterarguments against it. What are the problems with this
theory?

According to the authors, no model of articulation was widely and
universally accepted at the time the paper was published. Has anything
changed in the last few years? Which theory is currently perceived as
the most accurate?

While reading about Assimilation and how it differs from
Coarticulation, I couldn't help but notice how similar this concept is
to Sandhi, which is systematic sound change of the word boundary
during the morphological process of compounding two words.

Regarding the difference between Coarticulation and Assimilation:
could assimilation be described as a more observable and regular form
of coarticulation that is codified in grammar? I believe that, to a
degree, the movements of the articulators played a role in the sound
changes that would later go on to be written down as grammar rules.

Since "coarticulation differs in degree across languages," has any
research found a correlation between the degree of coarticulation in a
certain language and any other features of that language, such as the
number of vowels, nasals, tones, etc.?