This project investigates the relationship between reading acquisition and coarticulatory organization, a fundamental correlate of spoken language fluency,
in preliterate and beginning readers of German, a language which supports consistent grapheme-to-phoneme relationships.
Results show that higher levels of phonological awareness, larger vocabulary and better reading skill are correlated with lower degrees of anticipatory coarticulation in CV sequences. (Noiray,Popescu et al., 2019, Popescu & Noiray, 2021)