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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Feb 24.
Published in final edited form as: J Acoust Soc Am. 2006 Nov;120(5 Pt 1):2872–2883. doi: 10.1121/1.2345832

FIG. 1.

FIG. 1

The top panel shows tongue, jaw, and lip movements between the two vowels in the word /kami/ with a short labial consonant; the gray line is an outline of the hard palate. The bottom panel shows the actual tongue body movement between the two vowels in the word with a short labial consonant and potential tongue movement trajectories in a word with a long consonant. See the text for further explanation.