artikulationsdrag
Artikulationsdrag is a term used in articulatory phonetics to describe the continued influence of an articulatory gesture after its primary moment of realization, leading to overlap between adjacent sounds. The phenomenon reflects how motor plans for speech are not isolated events but gestural units that can persist, harmonize, or conflict with upcoming gestures.
In practice, artikulationsdrag arises from biomechanical and neural constraints that cause articulators (such as the tongue,
The concept is closely related to coarticulation and is often modeled within articulatory phonology and dynamic
Applications of studying artikulationsdrag include improving speech synthesis and recognition, refining phonetic theory, and informing language