Synthesis of initial (/s/-) stop-liquid clusters using HLsyn

The paper describes synthesis of English syllable-initial stop-liquid and /s/-stop-liquid clusters using the HLsyn speech synthesis program. The articulo-acoustic parameters of HLsyn permit efficient synthesis of most consonant types; the parameter specifications also capture important generalizations about how related sets of consonants are produced. The author discusses settings of a small number of parameters that permit synthesis of 60 different phonetic sequences.