TY - JOUR
T1 - Variability in the implementation of voicing in American English obstruents
AU - Davidson, Lisa
N1 - Funding Information:
I would like to thank James Whang, Steven Foley, and Benjamin Gittelson for their help in analyzing the data for this study. I also thank Gillian Gallagher, Suzy Ahn and Sang-Im Lee-Kim for their helpful comments on this work and the audience at the Acoustical Society of America meeting in Providence and at ICPhS 2015 in Glasgow for their input. This research was supported by faculty research funds from New York University .
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© 2015 Elsevier Ltd.
PY - 2016/1/1
Y1 - 2016/1/1
N2 - Previous research has shown that in languages like English, the implementation of voicing in voiced obstruents is affected by linguistic factors such as utterance position, stress, and the adjacent sound. The goal of the current study is to extend previous findings in two ways: (1) investigate the production of voicing in connected read speech instead of in isolation/carrier sentences, and (2) understand the implementation of partial voicing by examining where in the constriction voicing appears or dies out. The current study examines the voicing of stops and fricatives in the connected read speech of 37 speakers. Results confirm that phrase position, word position, lexical stress, and the manner and voicing of the adjacent sound condition the prevalence of voicing, but they have different effects on stops and fricatives. The analysis of where voicing is realized in the constriction interval shows that bleed from a preceding sonorant is common, but voicing beginning partway through the constriction interval (i.e., negative voice onset time) is much rarer. The acoustic, articulatory, and aerodynamic sources of the patterns of phonation found in connected speech are discussed.
AB - Previous research has shown that in languages like English, the implementation of voicing in voiced obstruents is affected by linguistic factors such as utterance position, stress, and the adjacent sound. The goal of the current study is to extend previous findings in two ways: (1) investigate the production of voicing in connected read speech instead of in isolation/carrier sentences, and (2) understand the implementation of partial voicing by examining where in the constriction voicing appears or dies out. The current study examines the voicing of stops and fricatives in the connected read speech of 37 speakers. Results confirm that phrase position, word position, lexical stress, and the manner and voicing of the adjacent sound condition the prevalence of voicing, but they have different effects on stops and fricatives. The analysis of where voicing is realized in the constriction interval shows that bleed from a preceding sonorant is common, but voicing beginning partway through the constriction interval (i.e., negative voice onset time) is much rarer. The acoustic, articulatory, and aerodynamic sources of the patterns of phonation found in connected speech are discussed.
KW - American English
KW - Connected speech
KW - Fricatives
KW - Stops
KW - Voicing
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U2 - 10.1016/j.wocn.2015.09.003
DO - 10.1016/j.wocn.2015.09.003
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84943514195
SN - 0095-4470
VL - 54
SP - 35
EP - 50
JO - Journal of Phonetics
JF - Journal of Phonetics
ER -