Abstract:Previous research on utterance-initial voiced stops in American English (AE) has shown that speakers enlarge the vocal cavity via tongue root advancement whether or not the stop is phonated when compared to voiceless stops (Ahn 2015). The current ultrasound study expands this line of research to examine two further variables: (a) utterance-initial fricatives/affricates and (b) effect of frontness of the following vowel. Participants included both monolingual (n = 4) and simultaneous bilingual (n = 7) AE speake… Show more
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