In the present study we analyzed vowel variation induced by carryover Vto-V coarticulation under the effect of pitch-accent as a function of vowel quality. We tested if /i/ (a vowel located in a more crowded region of the vowel space) is more resistant to coarticulation than /u/ (a vowel located in a sparser region of the vowel space), and if both vowels show increased coarticulatory resistance in pitch-accented syllables. We analyzed parallel acoustic and articulatory data in 9 speakers of

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... arian, and in real words. The results showed that accent clearly exerted an effect on the phonetic realization of vowels, but the effect we found was dependent on both the vowel quality, and the domain (articulation/acoustics) at hand. Observation of the patterns we found in parallel acoustic and articulatory data also warrants for reconsideration of the term 'coarticulatory resistance', and how it should be conceptualized.