Abstract:This study aims to show that the VOTs of English stops are phonetically influenced by non-local segments. Eight native English speakers (4 females and 4 males) produced nonce words of the forms C 1 V 1 C 2 and C 1 V 1 C 2 VC with variation in the voicing of C 1 and C 2 . Phonetic analysis found, first, that voiceless C 1 -VOT shortening occurs regressively when followed by another voiceless stop across a vowel, but C 2 -VOT is not affected by C 1 . Second, VOT modulation in English voiceless stops is non-local… Show more
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