1897-1059 Phonotactic and morphonotactic influences on the (a)synchronicity of consonant clusters in Polish Schwartz Geoffrey author Dziubalska-Kołaczyk Katarzyna author Święciński Radosław author Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences 00y2z2s03 Correspondence to: Geoffrey Schwartz geoff@amu.edu.pl Correspondence to: Katarzyna Dziubalska-Kołaczyk dkasia@amu.edu.pl Correspondence to: Radosław Święciński r.j.swiecinski@hva.nl 23 08 2024 Volume 141, Issue 3 2024 205 217 Copyright © 2024 2024 <div>A pilot speech production experiment combined articulatory data obtained using Electromagnetic Articulography (EMA), along with acoustic measures, to investigate the effects of cluster size (CC vs. CCC) and morpheme boundaries on consonant cluster synchronicity for five speakers of Polish. We found that being placed in a larger cluster leads to less synchronous productions of two-consonant sequences. 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