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A Study of VOT in Nepali Stop Consonants
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Pamela G. Poon
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November 19, 2009
Abstract
Speech samples (720 CVC words) from 10 adult male Nepali speakers are analyzed with the aid of a video spectrograph. The distributions of VOT based on group data for each of four phonemic stop categories show that only three of the categories can be differentiated by VOT alone: voice lead, short-lag and long-lag stops. The fourth category, voiced aspirate, contains VOT values from both pre- and postrelease areas of the VOT timeline. Analysis of individual data reveals marked intersubject variability in the VOT distribution of the voiced aspirate category supporting the necessity of multiple subject samples in acoustically based cross-linguistic studies.
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Received: 1984-04-11
Accepted: 1984-11-28
Published Online: 2009-11-19
Published in Print: 1985-01-01
© 1985 S. Karger AG, Basel
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