Contrasting phonetic effects of morphological boundaries for vowel and consonant suffixes

Suffixes (e.g., frees) have been found to systematically vary in acoustic realizations (e.g., duration) and articulatory realizations (e.g., tongue position) both, compared to pseudo-suffixes (e.g., freeze). In the present study/talk, it was reporeted that this effect of morphological status on phonetic realizations can be modulated by vocality of the segment in question; A suffix can be longer in duration and more peripheral in tongue movements, compared to its corresponding pseudo-suffix, if it is made of a vowel (e.g., Arbeiter “worker” vs. Vater “father”), but such differences are not observable if the suffix is made of a consonant (e.g., er macht “he makes” vs. die Macht “the power”).