Abstract:While older Japanese speakers from the Kansai region produce voiced-voiceless stop contrasts with a true voicing distinction, older speakers from the northern Tohoku region produce the same stop contrasts with a short- versus long-lag VOT distinction, similar to the voicing contrast of English stops. However, Japanese speakers of younger generations from both of these dialect regions have been observed to produce the voiced-voiceless stop contrast in much the same way to each other, and they also seem to be us… Show more
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