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• Sample papers on Voice Onset Time (VOT)

Leigh Lisker

 

LEIGH LISKER (1918—2006)

Some Sample Papers
on Voice Onset Time (VOT), to give an idea of the impact

  • Abramson, A. and Lisker, L., “Discrimination along the voicing continuum:Cross-language tests,” Proc. 6th Int. Cong. Phonetic Sciences, Prague,1967, Academia, Prague: 1970, pp.569–573.
  • Abramson, A.S., and Lisker, L. (1972). "Voice-timing percepticn in Spanish word-initial stops," J. Phon. 1, 1-8.
  • Abramson, A. & L. Lisker, 1973. Voice-timing perception in Spanish word-initial stops. Journal of Phonetics 1, 1-8.
  • Artimonte Rocca, P.D. & Marcelino, M. (1999). Some characteristics of VOT inplosives produced by speakers of English and Portuguese. Proceedings of the 14th International Congress of the Phonetic Sciences. 1425-1428.
  • Baran, J.A., Laufer, M.Z., & Daniloff, R. (1977). Phonological contrastivity in conversation: A comparative study of voice onset time. Journal of Phonetics, 5, 339-350.
  • Blumstein, S. E., Cooper, W. E., Zurif, E. B., and Caramazza, A. (1977). "The perception and production of voice onset time in aphasia," Neuropsychologia 15, 371-383.
  • Bond, Z.S., Eddey, J.E, & Bermejo, J.J. (1980). VOT del espanol to English:comparison of a language-disordered and normal child. Journal of Phonetics 8. 287-290.
  • Borden, G. J., Baer, T., & Kenney, M. K. (1985). Onset of voicing in stuttered and fluent utterances. Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 28, 363–372.
  • Gandour, J., & Dardarananda, R. (1984). Voice onset time in aphasia: Thai II. Production. Brain and Language, 23, 177–205.
  • Gandour, J., Petty, S. H., Dardarananda, R., Dechongkit, S., & Mukngoen, S. (1986). The acquisition of the voicing contrast in Thai: A study of voice onset time in word-initial stop consonants. Journal of Child Language, 13, 561–572.
  • Carney, A. E., Widin, G. P., Viemeister, N. F. (1977) "Noncategorical perception of stop consonants differing in VOT", J. Acoust. Soc. Am. Vol 62: pp. 961 - 970.
  • Caramazza, A., Yeni-Komshian, G.H., Zurif, E.B., and Carbone, E. (1973) "The acquisition of a new phonological contrast: The case of stop consonants in French-English bilinguals" J. Acoust. Soc. Am. Vol. 54:2 pp. 421 - 428.
  • Cho, Taehong, and Peter Ladefoged. 1999. Variations and universals in VOT: evidence from 18 languages. Journal of Phonetics 27. 207-229.
  • Davis, K. (1995). Phonetic and phonological contrasts in the acquisition of voicing: Voice onset time production in Hindi and English. Journal of Child Language, 22, 275–305.
  • Eggermont, Jos J. (1995) "Representation of a voice onset time continuum in primary auditory cortex of the cat" J. Acoust. Soc. Am. Vol. 98:2 pp. 911 - 920.
  • Flege, James Emil and Eefting,  Wieke  (1988) "Imitation of a VOT continuum by native speakers of English and Spanish: Evidence for phonetic category formation" J. Acoust. Soc. Am. Vol. 83:2, pp. 729 - 740.
  • Flege, J. E. (1991). Age of learning affects the authenticity of voice-onset time (VOT) in stop consonants produced in a second language. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America,89 (1), 395-411.
  • Freeman, F. J., Sands, E. S., & Harris, K. S. (1978). Temporal coordination of phonation and articulation in a case of verbal apraxia: A voice onset time study. 6, 106–111.
  • Healey, E. C., & Gutkin, B. (1984). Analysis of stutterers' voice onset times and fundamental frequency contours during fluency. Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 27, 219–225.
  • Herring, K. 2006 Voice Onset Time in Women as a Function of Oral Contraceptive Use, Ph.D. Thesis, Florida State University.
  • Higgins, M.B., Netsell, R., & Schulte, L. (1998). Vowel-related differences in laryngeal articulatory and phonatory function. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 41, 712-724.
  • Hoit-Dalgaard, J., Murry, T., & Kopp, H. G. (1983). Voice onset time production and perception in apraxic subjects. Brain and Language, 20, 329–339.
  • Hoit, J., Solomon, N., & Hixon, T. (1993). Effect of lung volume on voice onset time (VOT). Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 36, 516-521.
  • Itoh, M., Sasanuma, S., Tatsumi, I. F., Murakami, S., Fukusako, Y., & Suzuki, T. (1982). Voice onset time characteristics in apraxia of speech. Brain and Language, 17, 193–210.
  • Jäncke, L. (1994). Variability and duration of voice onset time and phonation in stuttering and nonstuttering adults. Journal of Fluency Disorders, 19, 21–37.
  • Keating, P. A. (1979). "A phonetic study of a voicing contrast in Polish," unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, Brown University.  
  • Keating, P., Linker, W., & Huffman, M. (1983). Closure duration of stop consonants.Journal of Phonetics, 11, pp.277-290.
  • Kessinger, R., & Blumstein, S. (1997). Effects of speaking rate on voice-onset time in Thai, French, and English. Journal of Phonetics, 25, 143-168.
  • Kessinger, R., & Blumstein, S. (1998). Effects of speaking rate on voice-onset time and vowel production: Some implications for perception studies. Journal of Phonetics, 26, 117-128.
  • Kewley-Port, D. & Preston, M.S. (1974). Early apical stop production: a voice onset time analysis. Journal of Phonetics 2. 195-210.
  • Klatt, D.H. (1975). Voice Onset Time, frication, and aspiration in word-initialconsonant clusters. Journal of Speech and Hearing Research 18. 686-706.
  • Koenig, L. L. (2001). Distributional characteristicsof VOT in children’s voiceless aspirated stops and interpretation of developmental trends.Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Re-search 44, 1058–1068.
  • Konefal, J.A. & Fokes, J. (1981). Voice onset time: the development of Spanish-English distinction in normal and language disordered children. Journal of Phonetics 9. 437-444.
  • Kuhl, P., and Miller, J.D. (1978). "Speech perceptinn by the chinchilla: identification functions for synthetic VOT stimuli," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 63, 905-917.
  • Lane, H., Wozniak, J., & Perkell, J. (1994). Changes in voice-onset time in speakers with cochlear implants. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 96(1), 56–64.
  • Lasky, R. E., Syrdal-Lasky, A., and Klein, H. E. (1975). "VOT discrimination by four and six and a half month old infants from Spanish environments," J. Exp. Child Psychol. 20, 215-225.
  • Lisker, L. & Abramson, A.S. A cross-language study of voicing in initial stops: acoustical measurements. Word, 1964, 20, 384-422.  
  • Lisker, L., & Abramson, A. (1967). Some effects of context on voice onset time in English stops. Language and Speech, 10, 1-28.
  • Lisker, L., and Abramson, A.S. (1970). "The voicing dimension: some experiments in comparative phonetics," in Proc. 6th Int. Congr. Phon. Sci., Prague (1967)(Academia, Prague).
  • Lisker, L. & Abramson, A.S. Distinctive features and laryngeal control. Language, 1971, 47, 767-785.
  • Lisker, L. On time and timing in speech. In T.A. Sebeok (Ed.), Current Trends in Linguistics, Vol. 12, The Hague: Mouton, 1974, 2387-2418.
  • Lisker, L. Is it VOT or a first-formant transition detector? Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 1975, 57, 1547-1551.
  • Lisker, L., Liberman, M.A., Erikson, D.M., Dechovitz, D., & Mandler, R. On pushing the voice-onset-time (VOT) boundary about. Language and Speech, 1977, 20, 209-216.
  • Lisker, L. Factors in the maintenance and cessation of voicing. Phonetica, 1977, 34, 304, 306.
  •  Lisker, L., Liberman, A. M., Erickson, D. M., Dechovitz, D. and Mandler, R. (1977). On pushing the voice onset time (VOT) boundary about. Language and Speech 20, 209–216.
  • Lisker, L. "In qualified defense of VOT", Lang Speech.,1978 Oct-Dec;21(4):375-83.
  • Lisker, L. & Baer, T. Laryngeal management at utterance-internal word boundary in American English. Language and Speech, 1984, 27, 163-171.
  • Lisker, L. The pursuit of invariance in speech signals. JASA, 1985, 77, 1199-1202.
  • Lisker, L. "Voicing" in English: A catalogue of acoustic features signaling /b/ versus /p/ in trochees. Language and Speech, 1986, 29, 3-11.
  • Löfqvist, A., Baer, T., McGarr, N.S., & Story, R.S. (1989). The cricothyroid muscle in voicing control. Journal of Acoustical Society of America, 85, 1314-1321.
  • Macken, M. & Barton, D. (1979). The acquisition of the voicing contrast in English: a study of voice onset time in word-initial stop consonants. Journal of Child Language 7. 41-74.
  • Magloire, Joël and Green, Kerry P. (1999) "A Cross-Language Comparison of Speaking Rate Effects on the Production of Voice Onset Time in English and Spanish," Vol. 56, No. 3-4.
  • Mikos, M.J., Keating, P.A., and Moslin, B.J. (1978). "The perception of voice onset time in Polish", J. Acoust. Soc. Am., Suppl. 1 63, S19.
  • Miller, Joanne L. (1977) "Properties of feature detectors for VOT: The voiceless channel of analysis" J. Acoust. Soc. Am. Vol. 62:3, pp. 641 - 648.
  • Pind, J. (1995) "Speaking rate, voice-onset time, and quantity: the search for higher-order invariants for two Icelandic speech cues" Percept Psychophys. 57:3, pp. 291 - 304.
  • Pind, J. (1999). The role of F1 in the perception of voice onset time and voice offset time. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 106, 434–437.
  • Port, RF, and Rotunno, R. (1979) "Relation between voice-onset time and vowel duration" J. Acoust. Soc. Am. Sep 66(3):654-62.
  • Price , P.J. and Simon, H. J. (1984 ) "Perception of Temporal Differences in Speech by `Normal Hearing' Adults: Effects of Age and Intensity,'' , J. Acoust. Soc. America, Vol. 76, pp. 405--410.
  • Raphael, L. J., Tobin, Y., Faber, A., Most, T., Kollia, H. B., & Milstein, D. (1995). Intermediate values of voice onset time. In F. Bell-Berti & L. J. Raphael (Eds.), Producing Speech: Contemporary issues (pp. 117–127). Woodbury, NY: AIP Press.
  • Ryalls, J., Zipprer, A., & Baldauff, P. (1997). A preliminary investigation of the effects of gender and race on voice onset time. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 40, 642-645.
  • Sinex, D.G. and McDonald, L.P. (1988) "Average discharge rate representation of voice onset time in the chinchilla auditory nerve" J. Acoust. Soc. Am. Vol. 83:5 pp. 1817 - 1827.
  • Stevens, Kenneth N. and Klatt, Dennis H. (1974) "Role of formant transitions in the voiced-voiceless distinction for stops" J. Acoust. Soc. Am. Vol. 55:3, pp. 653-659.
  • Swartz, B. L. (1992). Gender differencies in voice on-set time. Perceptual and Motor Skills (75), 983–992.
  • Watson, B. C., & Alfonso, P. J. (1982). A comparison of LRT and VOT values between stutterers and nonstutterers. Journal of Fluency Disorders, 7, 219–241.
  • Weismer, G. (1979). "Sensitivity of voice-onset time (VOT) measures of certain segmental features in speech production;' J. Phon. 7, 197-204.
  • Whalen, D. H., Abramson, A. S., Lisker, L., & Mody, M. (1993). F0 gives voicing information even with unambiguous voice onset times. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 93(4), 2152–2159.
  • Whiteside, S. P. and J. Marshall (1998). Voice onset time patterns in 7-, 9-, and 11- year old children. In R. H. Mannell and J. Robert-Ribes (Eds.),Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Volume 6, pp.2687–2690. Australian Speech Science and Technology Association, Incorporated.
  • Williams, L. (1977a). The voicing contrast in Spanish. Journal of Phonetics 5, 169-184.
  • Williams, L. (1977b). The perception of stop consonant voicing by Spanish-English bilinguals. Perception and Psychophysics 21, 289-297.
  • Wood, C.C. (1976) "Discriminability, response bias, and phoneme categories in discrimination of voice onset time" J. Acoust. Soc. Am. Vol. 60:6 pp. 1381-1389.
  • Zlatin, M.A. (1974). "Voicing contrast: perceptual and productive voice onset time characteristics of adults," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 56, 981-994.
  • Zlatin, M. & Koenigsknecht, R. (1976). Development of the voicing contrast: acomparison of voice onset time in perception and production. Journal of Speech and Hearing Research 19. 93-111.

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