Voice Timing in Korean Stops

Abramson, Arthur S.; Lisker, Leigh; Rigault, André; Charbonneau, René

doi:10.1515/9783110814750-042

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“…Note, however, that it is the “slightly aspirated” category that is fully voiced in medial position. Perceptual data obtained with synthetic speech (Abramson & Lisker, 1972) give general support to these acoustic findings. All of this has to be considered against a background of controversy.…”

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Voice Onset Time (VOT) at 50: Theoretical and practical issues in measuring voicing distinctions

Abramson

Whalen

2017

Journal of Phonetics

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Just over fifty years ago, Lisker and Abramson proposed a straightforward measure of acoustic differences among stop consonants of different voicing categories, voice onset time (VOT). Since that time, hundreds of studies have used this method. Here, we review the original definition of VOT, propose some extensions to the definition, and discuss some problematic cases. We propose a set of terms for the most important aspects of VOT and a set of Praat labels that could provide some consistency for future cross-study analyses. Although additions of other aspects of realization of voicing distinctions (F0, amplitude, duration of voicelessness) could be considered, they are rejected as adding too much complexity for what has turned out to be one of the most frequently used metrics in phonetics and phonology.

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Voice Onset Time (VOT) at 50: Theoretical and practical issues in measuring voicing distinctions

Abramson

Whalen

2017

Journal of Phonetics

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“…Here, the Korean plosives that we used did differ in terms of voicing, and did span at least one of the universal boundaries (that at 130 ms VOT). However, it seems that Korean plosives may also differ by other acoustic cues than just VOT (Abramson & Lisker, 1972), so we cannot absolutely certify that dyslexic and control participants' similar performance has been achieved by exploiting exactly the same acoustic cues. This hypothesis therefore deserves further, more specifically designed investigations.…”

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Exploring dyslexics' phonological deficit III: foreign speech perception and production

2010

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This study investigates French dyslexic and control adult participants' ability to perceive and produce two different non-native contrasts (one segmental and one prosodic), across several conditions varying short-term memory load. For this purpose, we selected Korean plosive voicing (whose categories conflict with French ones) as the segmental contrast and lexical stress as the prosodic contrast (French does not use contrastive lexical stress). We also used a French (native) segmental contrast as a control. Tasks were either auditory discrimination or repetition of CVCV nonsense words. Short-term memory load was varied by presenting the stimuli either in isolation, in sequences of two, or in sequences of three. Our results show overall few differences between dyslexic and control participants. In particular, dyslexic participants performed similarly to controls in all tasks involving Korean plosives, whether in discrimination or in production, and regardless of short-term memory load. However, some group differences emerged with respect to lexical stress, in the discrimination task at greater short-term memory load. Various analyses suggest that dyslexic participants' difficulties are due to the meta-phonological nature of the task and to short-term memory load.

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“…Two contrasting types of aspiration is clearly an impossibility under the feature system I propose, as well as under most feature systems that are based on cross-linguistic data. The study of Abramson and Lisker (1972), using synthesized speech presented to native speakers of Korean, showed that voice onset time was not sufficient to distinguish the three categories of Korean stops; since voice onset time is a correlate of aspiration, this seems to be evidence that this is not two varieties of aspiration. In fact, the evidence points clearly toward the conclusion that the correct description of Korean is that it has globalized, plain and aspirated stops, as a number of authors have assumed.…”

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Laryngeal features and privativity

Lombardi¹

1995

The Linguistic Review

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Voice Timing in Korean Stops

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Voice Onset Time (VOT) at 50: Theoretical and practical issues in measuring voicing distinctions

Voice Onset Time (VOT) at 50: Theoretical and practical issues in measuring voicing distinctions

Exploring dyslexics' phonological deficit III: foreign speech perception and production

Laryngeal features and privativity

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