A preliminary investigation of the effects of gender and race on voice onset time

    Authors

    J. Ryalls; A. Zipprer;P. Baldauff

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    Abbreviated Journal Title

    J. Speech Lang. Hear. Res.

    Keywords

    voice onset time; gender; race; African American; Caucasian; SPEAKING; Audiology & Speech-Language Pathology; Linguistics; Rehabilitation

    Abstract

    Twenty individuals participated in a study of Voice Onset Time (VOT) production. Participants included equal numbers of males and females and equal numbers of African Americans and Caucasian Americans. Each individual read a set of stimuli Formed from the six stop consonants (/p/, /t/, /k/ /b/, /d/, /g/) combined with the three vowels /i/, /a/, and /u/. Their productions were measured for VOT. Considerably more prevoicing (i.e., negative VOT) for voiced stops was found in the present study in comparison with past studies, Statistically significant differences were Found for both gender and race. These results suggest that the normative data presently available is probably inadequate because it does not accurately reflect the normal distribution of either gender or race within the American population.

    Journal Title

    Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research

    Volume

    40

    Issue/Number

    3

    Publication Date

    1-1-1997

    Document Type

    Article

    Language

    English

    First Page

    642

    Last Page

    645

    WOS Identifier

    WOS:A1997XG79000014

    ISSN

    1092-4388

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