title: An articulatory and acoustic study of the fricative clusters /sʃ/ and /ʃs/ in Catalan.
abstract: Elect ropalatographic and acoustic data for the fricative clusters /sʃ/ and /ʃs/ and the single fricatives /s/ and /ʃ/ in Eastern Catalan reveal that, while /sʃ/ undergoes regressive assimilation, /ʃs/ blends into an intermediate fricative or exhibits a twotarget realization. On the other hand, acoustic data for /ʃs/ in Western Catalan show that /s/ may assimilate to preceding /ʃ/ or undergo blending or a two-target realization depending on speaker and prosodic condition (no data are available for /sʃ/ in this dialect). Duration values for the two fricative clusters suggest that the assimilated outcome of /sʃ/ shortens down to the length of /ʃ/. A production-based account of the two sequences /sʃ/ and /ʃs/ in Catalan and other languages is proposed.
authors: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain.
authors: Daniel
authors: D
authors: Recasens
authors: Meritxell
authors: M
authors: Mira
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D010700:Phonetics; D013030:Spain; D013061:Speech Acoustics; D013067:Speech Perception