Influence of Gender and Environmental Setting on Voice Onset Time

Robb, Michael P.; Gilbert, Harvey R.; Lerman, Jay W.

doi:10.1159/000084133

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“…Females tend to produce longer VOTs than males (Swartz, 1992;Whiteside and Irving, 1997;Ryalls et al, 1997;Koenig, 2000;Robb et al, 2005). Voiceless stop contexts appear to reveal this effect most consistently.…”

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Covariation among vowel height effects on acoustic measures

Berry

Moyle

2011

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

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Covariation among vowel height effects on vowel intrinsic fundamental frequency (IF0), voice onset time (VOT), and voiceless interval duration (VID) is analyzed to assess the plausibility of a common physiological mechanism underlying variation in these measures. Phrases spoken by 20 young adults, containing words composed of initial voiceless stops or /s/ and high or low vowels, were produced in habitual and voluntarily increased F0 conditions. High vowels were associated with increased IF0 and longer VIDs. VOT and VID exhibited significant covariation with IF0 only for males at habitual F0. The lack of covariation for females and at increased F0 is discussed.

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Covariation among vowel height effects on acoustic measures

Berry

Moyle

2011

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

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“…They did not reach to normal hearing adults level. Since VOT is an effective indicator of subtle articulatory-phonatory interaction differences in speech production and also is an effective measure for examining vocal tract adjustment, and serves as an inferential estimate of speech motor control, requiring fine motor coordination of the respiratory, phonatory, and articulatory structures [3], we may say that in time, cochlear implantation improved articulatory accuracy and fine motor coordination of the respiratory, phonatory, and articulatory structures through direct stimulation of the auditory nerve, but it can be suggested that in time it may not be possible that implantation will return the deviated mean VOT values to the normal levels, e.g. the articulatory accuracy may not be as same as the normal hearing people.…”

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“…VOT also serves as an inferential estimate of speech motor control, requiring fine motor coordination of the respiratory, phonatory, and articulatory structures [3].…”

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Voice Onset Time for Turkish Stop Consonants in Adult Cochlear Implanted Patients

Dalğıç

Kandoğan

Aksoy

2014

Indian J Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg

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The voice onset time is a temporal acoustic parameter defined as the time between the release of the oral constriction for plosive production and the onset of vocal fold vibrations. Hearing impairment is one of the factors that can effect the magnitude of voice onset time. Since voice onset time is a useful, noninvasive method for documenting the articulatory-phonatory aspects of vocal training during speech, we investigated voice onset time values for Turkish stop consonants in adult cochlear implanted patients in order to clarify the effect of CI and sequential hearing rehabilitation over voice onset time values. The CI patients were divided into two groups according to duration of CI usage. We looked for relations between results of the study and average voice onset time values in Turkish language for adults. Mean VOT values for for both males and females in the first and second group are shown in Tables 1, 2, 3, and 4. Most syllables both in males and females statistically significant differ from average VOT values, e.g. They did not reach to normal hearing adults level. These acoustic results indicated that VOT may be an effective measure for examining the effect of cochlear implantation over the articulatory accuracy. As far as we know, this is the first publication using voice onset time values for the efficiency of cochlear implantation in adult patients.

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“…Two contextual factors that have been examined extensively with respect to VOT, and that are the focus of the current research, are place of articulation and speaking rate ͑e.g., Klatt, 1975;Lisker and Abramson, 1967;Picheny et al, 1986;Robb et al, 2005͒. First consider place of articulation.…”

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Individual talker differences in voice-onset-time: Contextual influences

Theodore

Miller

DeSteno

2009

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

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Previous research indicates that talkers differ in phonetically relevant properties of speech, including voice-onset-time ͑VOT͒ in word-initial stop consonants; some talkers have characteristically shorter VOTs than others. Previous research also indicates that VOT is robustly affected by contextual influences, including speaking rate and place of articulation. This paper examines whether these contextual influences on VOT are themselves talker-specific. Many tokens of alveolar /ti/ ͑experiment 1͒ or labial /pi/ and velar /ki/ ͑experiment 2͒ were elicited from talkers across a range of rates. VOT and vowel duration ͑a metric of rate͒ were measured for each token. Hierarchical linear modeling analyses showed that ͑1͒ VOT increased as rate decreased for all talkers, but the magnitude of the increase varied significantly across talkers; thus the effect of rate on VOT was talker-specific; ͑2͒ the talker-specific effect of rate was stable across a change in place of articulation; and ͑3͒ for all talkers VOTs were shorter for labial than velar stops, and there was no significant variability in the magnitude of this displacement across talkers; thus the effect of place on VOT was not talker-specific. The implications of these findings for how listeners might accommodate talker differences in VOT during speech perception are discussed.

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Influence of Gender and Environmental Setting on Voice Onset Time

Cited by 65 publications

References 63 publications

Covariation among vowel height effects on acoustic measures

Covariation among vowel height effects on acoustic measures

Voice Onset Time for Turkish Stop Consonants in Adult Cochlear Implanted Patients

Individual talker differences in voice-onset-time: Contextual influences

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