PHONETICS AND PHONOLOGY COARTICULATION SOLUTION ...

“seep, six, seven” have no lip rounding at all.
“soon, strewn, swoop” have lip rounding throughout as there are no sounds requiring
unrounding.
9. In many languages consonant place of articulation is affected by the place
characteristics of following vowels such that back vowels often condition back
varieties of consonants and front vowels condition more fronted varieties. There are
however constraints on the degree to which such conditioning occurs in language.
Examine the voiceless stop phoneme inventory of Yanyuwa below and explain why
consonant to vowel coarticulation is greatly reduced in this language. The symbol for
the apical post alveolar is a dot under the [t]. This is not the same as retroflex which
is a sub-apical palatal.
bilabial laminal apical laminal palatal velar
dental post alveolar post alveolar
[p] [t�] [t�] [t�] [c] [k]
This language has a very complex consonant inventory which requires careful place
specification inhibiting coarticulation.