A Cross-Language Comparison of Speaking Rate Effects on the Production of Voice Onset Time in English and Spanish

Magloire, Joël; Green, Kerry P.

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“…Studies have found that these factors can affect VOT duration in English (Klatt, 1975;Neiman, Klich, & Shuey, 1983;Higgins, Netsell, & Schulte, 1998;Cho & Ladefoged, 1999;Whiteside, Henry, & Dobbin, 2004;Yao, 2009). The same applies to Spanish though to a lesser extent (Magloire & Green, 1999;Schmidt & Flege, 1996).…”

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Voice onset time in Spanish–English spontaneous code-switching

Piccinini

Arvaniti

2015

Journal of Phonetics

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Research on the phonetics of code-switching has focused on voice onset time (VOT) and has yielded mixed results regarding cross-language interaction, possibly due to differences in data used (scripted vs. spontaneous speech) and populations examined (L1 vs. L2 dominant, early vs. late bilinguals). Here VOT was measured in a corpus of spontaneous code-switching speech elicited from a homogeneous group of early bilinguals in conversation with and without distraction (completion of jigsaw puzzles). The distraction meant to increase cognitive load, a manipulation that could affect phonetic realization. Both English and Spanish VOT were shorter at codeswitching points than in comparable monolingual utterances. English VOT lengthened overall under increased cognitive load (but remained shorter in code-switching as compared to the monolingual context). These results support previous findings of VOT shortening in code-switching for both English and Spanish, and confirm that the effect applies in the natural speech of early bilinguals.

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Voice onset time in Spanish–English spontaneous code-switching

Piccinini

Arvaniti

2015

Journal of Phonetics

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“…Several important issues are not addressed. Magloire and Green (1999) suggest that effects of changes in speaking rate on VOT can be restricted to languages that present relatively large (positive) VOTs. Furthermore, although the observations of VOTs in Experiment 1 are consistent with those reported in other studies (see the reference to Lane et al, 1995), measures taken from repeated syllables may not reflect the full range of values found in spontaneous speech.…”

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Timing relations in speech and the identification of voice-onset times: A stable perceptual boundary for voicing categories across speaking rates

Boucher

2002

Perception & Psychophysics

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This study shows that the ratio of voice onset time (VOT) to syllable duration for /t/ and /d/ presents distributions with a stable boundary across speaking rates and that this boundary constitutes a perceptual criterion by which listeners judge the category affiliation of VOT. In Experiment 1, best-fit regression lines for VOT ratios of intervocalic /t/ and /d/ against speaking rate had zero slopes, and there was an inferable boundary between the distributions. In Experiment 2, listeners' identifications of syllableinitial stops conformed to this boundary ratio. In Experiment 3, VOT was held constant, while VOT ratios were altered by modifying the duration of the following vowel. As VOT ratios exceeded the boundary estimated from the data of Experiment 1, listeners' identifications shifted from /d/ to /t/. Timing relations in speech production can determine the identificationof voicing categoriesacross speaking rates.

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“…Whether or not they subscribe to rate normalization views, virtually all production studies report asymmetrical effects of articulation rate on voicing categories, with much smaller effects on short-lag than long-lag categories (Kessinger & Blumstein, 1997;Magloire & Green, 1999;Miller et al, 1986;Nagao & de Jong, 2007;Pind, 1995;Schiavetti et al, 1996;Stuart-Smith et al, 2015;Volaitis & Miller, 1992). Conceivably, for naturally occurring ranges of VOT, a rate-independent category boundary between short-lag and long-lag VOT is effective enough across different rates of articulation.…”

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The VOT Category Boundary in Word-Initial Stops: Counter-Evidence Against Rate Normalization in English Spontaneous Speech

Nakai

Scobbie

2016

Laboratory Phonology

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Some languages, such as many varieties of English, use short-lag and long-lag VOT to distinguish word-and syllable-initial voiced vs. voiceless stop phonemes. According to a popular view, the optimal VOT category boundary between the two types of stops moves towards larger values as articulation rate becomes slower (and speech segments longer), and listeners accordingly shift the perceptual VOT category boundary. According to an alternative view, listeners do not shift the VOT category boundary with a change in articulation rate, because the same category boundary remains optimal across different rates of articulation in normal speech, although a shift in the optimal boundary location can be induced in the laboratory by instructing speakers to use artificially extreme articulation rates. In this study we compared the effectiveness of rateindependent VOT category boundaries applied to word-initial stop phonemes in spontaneous English speech, against the effectiveness of Miller et al.'s (1986) rate-dependent VOT category boundary applied to laboratory speech. The effectiveness of the two types of category boundaries were comparable, when spontaneous speech data were controlled for factors other than articulation rate. Our results suggest that perceptual VOT category boundaries need not shift with a change in articulation rate under normal circumstances.

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A Cross-Language Comparison of Speaking Rate Effects on the Production of Voice Onset Time in English and Spanish

Cited by 72 publications

References 39 publications

Voice onset time in Spanish–English spontaneous code-switching

Voice onset time in Spanish–English spontaneous code-switching

Timing relations in speech and the identification of voice-onset times: A stable perceptual boundary for voicing categories across speaking rates

The VOT Category Boundary in Word-Initial Stops: Counter-Evidence Against Rate Normalization in English Spontaneous Speech

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