Electropalatographic data on Catalan Ip) and (j) indicate the wnvenience to distinguish at least two articulatory classes of high dorsal consonants (excluding velars), 1.e." alveolopalatals and palatals proper Lingual wntact at the...
moreElectropalatographic data on Catalan Ip) and (j) indicate the wnvenience to distinguish at least two articulatory classes of high dorsal consonants (excluding velars), 1.e." alveolopalatals and palatals proper Lingual wntact at the medio- postpalatal zone is less extensive and more variable Sor (JI) than for (j), which suggests that the tongue dorsum is actctlvated for the latter consonant but not for the former. It is claimed that the presence of a large extent of wntact behind the alveolo- prepalatal zone and a fi)-like wnfiguration at closure offset is not indicative of the presence OS a dorsal gesture for Ip) but results from mechamcal effects. This viem suggests that alveolopalatals are not complex segments (produced with a tongut blade gesture and a tongue dorsum gesture) but s~mple segments (produced with the blade and the predorsum at the alveolo-prepalatal zone) Phonetlc and phonological processes lnvolving the consonants ~nto wnsideration can be explained assuming the...
