Voice Onset Time in Indian English-Accented Speech

Autor/inn/en	Awan, Shaheen N.; Stine, Carolyn L
Titel	Voice Onset Time in Indian English-Accented Speech
Quelle	In: Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 25 (2011) 11-12, S.998-1003 (6 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0269-9206
DOI	10.3109/02699206.2011.619296
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; North American English; Indians; Dialects; Pronunciation; English (Second Language); Speech Instruction; Language Variation; Mutual Intelligibility; Communication (Thought Transfer); Articulation (Speech); Auditory Perception; Auditory Training; Interrater Reliability; Pennsylvania + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Amerikanisches Englisch; Inder; Dialect; Dialekt; Aussprache; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Speech training; Sprechübung; Sprachenvielfalt; Communication; thought; Kommunikation; Gedanke; Auditive Wahrnehmung; Akustische Wahrnehmung; Akustik; Belgien; Interrater-Reliabilität
Abstract	The purpose of this study was to determine possible differences in voice onset time (VOT) between speakers of standard American English (AE) and Indian English (IE) in a continuous speech context. The participants were 20 AE speakers, who were native to the Northeastern Pennsylvania region, and 20 IE speakers from the Indian subcontinent who had been residing in Northeastern Pennsylvania. Each subject read a phonetically balanced passage in a comfortable and natural speaking voice, and the recordings were analysed using a combination of waveform and spectrographic analyses. Results indicate that a reduced +VOT appears to characterise IE accent in comparison to AE. In addition, a difference in VOT between genders was observed in AE speakers but not in IE speakers. (Contains 1 table.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10