Koartikulaatio
Koartikulaatio (Finnish for coarticulation) is a phenomenon in speech production where the articulation of a given sound is influenced by surrounding sounds, leading to overlap between articulatory gestures. In fluent speech, articulators such as the lips, tongue, and jaw begin preparing for the next segment while the current one is still being produced. This overlap is a normal, productive property of speech, contributing to natural variability but also to robust speech perception.
Coarticulation can be described as anticipatory or carryover. Anticipatory coarticulation occurs when the articulation of the
Evidence for koartikulaatio comes from acoustic and articulatory data. Acoustic indicators include formant transitions and spectral
Understanding koartikulaatio helps explain why speech sounds are not perfectly discrete and how listeners use transitional