PHONETICS AND PHONOLOGY COARTICULATION SOLUTION ...

You should be able to feel that the vowels preceding nasals are nasalised (you can
feel the nasal resonance). You can also do this by putting your hands over your ears.
b. Repeat this exercise with the following words
“nat” “tan”
“knit” “tin”
“mark” “calm”
c. How do the two conditions differ?
Greater nasality for vowels before nasals than after nasals again due to anticipatory
coarticulation
3. Examine the articulatory processes involved in producing the final consonant
cluster in the following words.
“apt” “akt” “walked” “jabbed”
These words contain heterorganic consonant clusters which are produced such that
the closure of the first is not released until the second closure has already been
created. The two sounds stops are coarticulated in the literal sense where two
articulations are occurring at the same time.
4. Transcribe phonetically your production of the nasals in the following words
“invite” [M]
“infinity” [M]
“incorporate” [N]
“under” [n]
“canyon” [¯]
“onion” [¯]
Explain the variation – anticipatory coarticulation
5. Examine the corpus below from Mokilese an Austronesian language of the South
Pacific
[pi8san] "full of leaves" [uduk] "flesh"
[tu8pu88kta] "bought" [kaskas] "to throw"
[pu8ko] "basket" [poki] "to strike something"
[ki8sa] "we two" [pil] "water"
[su88pwo] "firewood" [apid] "outrigger support"
[kamq�ki8ti] "to move" [lud�uk] "to tackle"