Just over fifty years ago, Lisker and Abramson proposed a straightforward measure of
acoustic differences among stop consonants of different voicing categories, Voice Onset …

Twenty years after the publication of a special issue in this journal on non-modal phonation
(JPhon 2001: 49 (4)), the phonetic study of voice quality has shown impressive progress …

Variation across talkers in the acoustic-phonetic realization of speech sounds is a pervasive
property of spoken language. The present study provides evidence that variation across …

In this special collection entitled Marking 50 Years of Research on Voice Onset Time and the
Voicing Contrast in the World's Languages, we have compiled eleven studies investigating …

This study documents the relation between f0 and prevoicing in the production and
perception of plosive voicing in Afrikaans. Acoustic data show that Afrikaans speakers …

Background The pronunciation of L2 English by L1 Mandarin speakers is influenced by
transfer effects from the phonology of Mandarin. However, there is a research gap in …

A successful language learner must be able to perceive and produce novel sounds in their
second language. However, the relationship between learning in perception and production …

Multiple co-varying cues for a phonological contrast are often introduced by coarticulation,
and sound change occurs when their relative weighting shifts. The central issues for this …

Yerevan Armenian is a variety of Eastern Armenian with a three-way voicing contrast that
includes voiced, voiceless unaspirated, and voiceless aspirated stops, but previous work …

Armenian (or,/hɑjeˈɾen/, ISO 639-1 hy) comprises an independent branch of the Indo-
European language family. 1 Its earliest attested ancestor is Classical Armenian in the fifth …