![]() Here’s an example say the words cat and can. They both have the vowel as the nucleus, but for can, when we produce that we’re already anticipating the upcoming nasal so we’ve already got the velum lowered to allow air into the nasal cavity. You can guess from its name that it involves sounds becoming more similar to each other. Sounds often become more similar to what’s coming up in the word. ![]() Probably the most common articulatory process is assimilation. This is called coarticulation: the articulation of every speech sound is shaped by the sounds that come before and after it. When we’re doing detailed, narrow phonetic transcription, we can include details about coarticulation and other articulatory processes. So when we produce that sound, our mouths are already preparing for the next vowel. But the vowels in each word are quite different: in key is high and front, and in cool is high, back and rounded. What position are your articulators in? Both key and cool start with the voiceless velar stop, so if we articulated speech segments individually, we’d expect our mouths to be in the same position for both words. What do you notice? Now get ready to say this word, but don’t actually say it, just freeze in the position: cool. I want you to prepare to say this word, but don’t actually say it: just put your mouth in the position to say the word key. Pay attention to how you’re holding your mouth. ![]() You can feel this really easily by saying a couple of words.
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