The phonetic realization of consonant clusters presents a challenge for studies on speech production. Differently from segmental sequences composed of vowels and consonants, the realization of consonant sequences offers a large variety of production scenarios which speakers may resolve through an array of articulatory mechanisms. These mechanisms are conditioned by the need to implement the place and manner of articulation and voicing characteristics for the consecutive consonants and may result in highly antagonistic situations. For example, in a sequence like /ɲr/ which may be found in the Catalan string bany rus “Russian bath”, where / ɲ/ is an alveolopalatal nasal and /r/ is an alveolar trill, the need to anticipate the tongue body lowering and backing movement for the trill conflicts necessarily with the raised and fronted tongue body configuration for the preceding alveolopalatal nasal.