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The term 'coarticulation' designates the fusion of small-scale events such as single sounds and single sound-producing actions into larger chunks of sound and body motion, resulting in qualitative new features at the medium-scale level of the chunk. Coarticulation has been extensively studied in linguis¬tics and to a certain extent in other domains of human body motion, but so far not so much in music, so the main aim of this paper is to provide a background for how we can explore coarticulation in music. The contention is that co¬ar¬ti¬cu¬la¬tion in music should be understood as based on a number of physical, bio¬me¬chanical and cognitive constraints, and that it is an essential shaping fac¬tor for several perceptually salient features of music.
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