Gestural coordination in Tashlhiyt syllables

International audience In this study we investigated the coordination of consonantal and vocalic gestures in Tashlhiyt Berber as a function of their subsyllabic constituency. The aim was to determine whether the syllabification proposed of word initial clusters is reflected in the coordination of articulatory gestures. Two main results were obtained: (1) The timing of consonants in word initial clusters in relation to a gestural target in the syllable coda provided evidence for non-branching onsets only. (2) This was true both for target words containing a vocoid and for those with a non-vocoid nucleus.