Anticipatory coarticulation in Hungarian VnC sequences

Gósy, Mária and Beke, András and Vago, Robert M. (2010) Anticipatory coarticulation in Hungarian VnC sequences. Acta Linguistica Hungarica, 57 (2-3). pp. 189-209. ISSN 1216-8076

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Abstract

The duration of the vowel and the nasal was analyzed in the casual pronunciation of Hungarian words containing the sequence V n .C, where ‘.’ is a syllable boundary and C is a stop, affricate, fricative, or approximant. It was found that due to anticipatory coarticulation the duration of n is significantly shorter before fricatives and approximants than before stops and affricates.A teaching algorithm was used to distinguish between stops/affricates and fricatives/approximants in V n C sequences. We used an approach to the classification of C by means of the support vector machine (SVM) and the properties of Radial basis function (RBF) kernel (using MATLAB, version 7.0). The results show close to 95% correct responses for the stop/affricate vs. fricative/approximant distinction of C, as opposed to about 60% correct responses for the classification of the voicing feature of C.

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