Voice-onset times for Castilian Spanish initial stops

Voiceless stop aspiration in Yucatan Spanish

“…These values are substantially higher than those reported for Castilian Spanish: 12ms /p/, 14ms /t/ and 26.5ms /k/ (Rosner et al 2000), as well as the value of 25.5ms reported for /k/ for female speakers from Central Mexico (Carpenter 2012). A comparison of YS mean VOTs and those reported in previous studies for other regions is found in Figure 1.…”

“…The limitations of the study were recognized, however, noting that there could be dialectal differences in alternate dialects or if stops were examined in other contexts such as running speech or word-medially (Williams 1977). More recently, Rosner et al (2000) replicated the experiments of Williams (1977) and Castañeda (1986) in order to make a quantitative comparison of Castilian and Latin American Spanish. Significant differences between dialects were found and confirmed when submitted to statistical analysis (see Figure 1 in Section 4 for a comparison).…”

“…These categories are: voicing lead (-30ms or more; also termed voiced stops), zero onset or short lag (0-30ms; also termed voiceless unaspirated stops), and long lag (+30ms; also termed voiceless aspirated stops) (Cho & Ladefoged 1999). Numerous studies have set out to examine VOT across Spanish dialects (Williams 1977;Borzone de Manrique 1980;Castañeda 1986;Roldán & Soto-Barba 1997;Rosner, López-Bascuas, García-Albea & Fahey 2000;Troya Déniz 2005). Spanish is generally considered a language with little aspiration present for /ptk/ (i.e., it presents short voice lag (Hualde 2005, 150)), in contrast with other languages, like English or Maya, that present long voice lag for the voiceless stops (see Burnett-Deas 2009 for Maya).…”

Voice onset times for Turkish stop consonants

“…The results may be ambiguous or distorted if we try to compare VOT values variance of two languages according to the following vowel. For example, the postconsonantal vowel was / c / rather than /2/ when Castilian Spanish speakers began voicing later for /p/, /k/ and started it earlier for /b/, /g/ (Rosner et al, 2000). We have made the comparison of VOT values variance according to the vowel only in our controlled environment.…”

“…For two Puerto Rican Spanish speakers the VOT values of voiceless stops /p/, /t/, /k/ were 4, 9, and 29 ms, respectively whereas the voiced stops /b/, /d/, /g/ were À138, À110, and À108 ms, respectively (Lisker and Abramson, 1964). The measurements were done on oscillograms for thirty-two Castilian Spanish speakers and the VOT values of /p/, /t/, /k/, /b/, /d/, /g/ were found to be 13.1, 14, 26.5, À91.5, À91.6, À73.7 ms, respectively (Rosner et al, 2000).…”