Resumen:
This paper addresses the relation between syllable structure and inter-segmental temporal coordination. The
data examined are Electromagnetic Articulometry recordings from six speakers of Central Peninsular Spanish
(henceforth, Spanish), producing words beginning with the clusters /pl, bl, kl, gl, p¿, k¿, t¿/ as well as corresponding unclustered sonorant-initial words in three vowel contexts /a, e, o/. In our results, we find evidence for a global organization of the segments involved in these combinations. This is reflected in a number of ways:
shortening of the prevocalic sonorant in the cluster-initial case compared to the unclustered case, reorganization
of the relative timing of the internal CV subsequence (in a CCV) in the obstruent-lateral context, early vowel initiation, and a strong compensatory relation between the duration of the obstruent-to-lateral transition and the
duration of the lateral. In other words, we find that the global organization presiding over the segments partaking
in these tautosyllabic CCVs is pleiotropic, that is, simultaneously expressed over a set of different phonetic
parameters rather than via a privileged metric such as c-center stability or any other such given single measure
(employed in prior works).
