Lawson, EleanorScobbie, James M.Stuart-Smith, Jane2018-06-292018-06-292011-08Lawson, E., Scobbie, J. & Stuart-Smith, J. (2011) A single case study of articulatory adaptation during acoustic mimicry, Proceedings of 17th ICPhS, Hong Kong, pp. 1170-1173.https://eresearch.qmu.ac.uk/handle/20.500.12289/2506The distribution of fine-grained phonetic variation can be observed in the speech of members of well-defined social groups. It is evident that such variation must somehow be able to propagate through a speech community from speaker to hearer. However, technological barriers have meant that close and direct study of the articulatory links of this speaker-hearer chain has not, to date, been possible. We present the results of a single-case study using an ultrasound-based method to investigate temporal and configurational lingual adaptation during mimicry. Our study focuses on allophonic variants of postvocalic /r/ found in speech from Central Scotland. Our results show that our informant was able to adjust tongue gesture timing towards that of the stimulus, but did not alter tongue configuration.1170-1173article