coarticulation.

The influence of preceding or following speech sounds on how a particular sound is physically produced.

Use it for

Words that belong together

• anticipatory coarticulation
• coarticulation effects
• degree of coarticulation

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The experiment measured coarticulation as the following vowel changed the consonant's production.

Usage notes

Primary category: academic / formal / analytical. Lexical Type: Word. Forms: Usually uncountable; no ordinary plural in this sense. Commonness: uncommon (editorial estimate; not a corpus frequency statistic). Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1; numbered fields keep each relevant meaning separate. Research distinction: Cambridge directly verifies effects from preceding or following sounds; useful for connected-speech description, not a new sound category. Writing functions: language analysis, conceptual distinction.