Talk:Coarticulation

Poor coverage

The subject of coarticulation is a really big one in phonetics, and it has dominated speech production research and theory-making for decades. This treatment is, therefore, really disappointing. For a start, there is only a single reference at the end of the article, and that is to a book on historical linguistics, so the few generalizations made about the topic are completely unsupported. The text implies that coarticulation is only concerned with the influence of a single segment upon another single segment, whereas one of the most interesting things that coarticulation research has shown is how its effects can spread over many segments. We get a list of names of different coarticulation theories with no explanation of what they are, and the first bullet point in the discussion of the topic only mentions assimilation of place. The reader is given no guidance on the relationship between assimilation and coarticulation. RoachPeter (talk) 08:55, 22 March 2015 (UTC)

Lack of discussion of sign languages

This article makes no reference to sign languages which are a huge example of coarticulation because phonemes are always coarticulated (each sign has a handshape, movement, location, orientation). See ASL phonology page for more info. Spoken languages have coarticulation in specific instances but since sign languages always do, they should be mentioned prominently on this page. ACuriousBrain (talk) 23:50, 30 November 2025 (UTC)