Production of voice onset time (VOT) in Austrian German conversational speech: a pilot study
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https://doi.org/10.36505/ExLing-2017/08/0011/000313Keywords:
acoustic phonetics, voice onset time, Austrian GermanAbstract
This paper deals with voice onset time (VOT) in Austrian German conversational speech. It presents methods and results from a pilot production study designed to investigate which VOT values native speakers of Austrian German typically produce for realisations of /p, t, k/ and /b, d, g/. Preliminary results from one female talker show a lot of variability in VOT values for voiceless plosives. Furthermore, for the bilabials and alveolars there is a considerable amount of overlap between phonologically voiced and voiceless plosives. This might suggest a tendency towards merging these two categories in conversational speech.
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