#3656. Coarticulation across morpheme boundaries: An ultrasound study of past-tense inflection in Scottish English

October 2026publication date
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Abstract:
It has been hypothesized that morphologically-complex words are mentally stored in a decomposed form, often requiring online composition during processing. Morphologically-simple words can only be stored as a whole. Accordingly, we hypothesized that morphologically-simple words might be produced with more coarticulation than apparently homophonous morphologically-complex words, because the retrieval of monomorphemic forms is direct, in contrast to morphologically-complex ones, which might need to be composed online into full word forms. Two types of articulatory analyses revealed no systematic differences in coarticulation between monomorphemic and morphologically-complex items, yet a few speakers did idiosyncratically produce some morphological effects on articulation. The research contributes to understanding of how morphologically complex words are stored and processed during speech production.
Keywords:
Coarticulation; Morphology; Speech production; Ultrasound Tongue Imaging

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