Document Type

Article

Publication Date

12-1999

Publication Title

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volume

106

Abstract

Voice onset times (VOT) and burst frequencies of two aspirated (i.e., /kh /, /gh/)  and two unaspirated (i.e., /k/, /g/) Gujarati velar stop consonants were investigated in an effort to provide characteristic acoustic information. Stop consonants in a monosyllabic vowel–consonant–vowel (VCV) production were obtained from eight native speakers of Gujarati. Differences in mean VOT and burst frequency as a function of voicing and aspiration were examined. A significant voicing by aspiration effect was found for VOT (p = 50.026). The two voiced stops, while not significantly different from each other had significantly shorter VOTs than voiceless stops. The aspirated /kh/ had a significantly longer VOT than the unaspirated /k/ (p = 0.0013). With respect to burst frequency, voiced stops had significantly higher burst frequencies than voiceless stops (p = 0.002). There was no significant difference between mean burst frequencies of aspirated and unaspirated stops (p = 0.058).

Issue

6

First Page

3736

Last Page

3738

DOI

10.1121/1.428226

ISSN

1520-8524

Rights

Copyright 1999 Acoustical Society of America. This article may be downloaded for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the author and the Acoustical Society of America.

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Rami, M. K., Kalinowski, J., Stuart, A., & Rastatter, M. P. (1999). Voice onset times and burst frequencies of four velar stop consonants in Gujarati. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 106(6), 3736-3738.

and may be found at https://doi.org/10.1121/1.428226

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