{"id":1519,"date":"2011-08-22T12:36:18","date_gmt":"2011-08-22T11:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/?page_id=1519"},"modified":"2011-09-25T22:28:17","modified_gmt":"2011-09-25T21:28:17","slug":"coarticulation-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/?page_id=1519","title":{"rendered":":Coarticulation:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The tendency for the articulation of speech sounds to adjust to that of sounds in their environment. A simple example is the spread of lip rounding to a preceding or following sound. Thus the first consonant in the English word <em>twin <\/em>has lip rounding because of the lip rounding of the following <span style=\"color: navy;\"><strong>w<\/strong><\/span>. Compare the first consonant in <em>tin<\/em>. Almost any feature of articulation may spread in this way. Other examples are nasality spreading from a <a href=\"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/?page_id=582\">nasal <\/a>stop to an adjacent <a href=\"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/?page_id=568\">sonorant<\/a>, minor adjustments in the<a href=\"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/?page_id=1524\"> place of articulation<\/a> conditioned by the place of articulation of a neighbouring sound, and the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/?page_id=1526\">devoicing <\/a>of consonants caused by <a href=\"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/?page_id=527\">voicelessness <\/a>in the the immediate environment. Coarticulation may be anticipatory: a sound is influenced by a following sound, or perseverative: an earlier sound influences one which follows.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>See also <a href=\"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/?page_id=719\">assimilation<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The tendency for the articulation of speech sounds to adjust to that of sounds in their environment. A simple example is the spread of lip rounding to a preceding or following sound. Thus the first consonant in the English word &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/?page_id=1519\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":168,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1519"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1519"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3305,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1519\/revisions\/3305"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}