TY  - GEN
A1  - Hullebus, Marc Antony
A1  - Tobin, Stephen J.
A1  - Gafos, Adamantios I.
T1  - Speaker-specific structure in German voiceless stop voice onset times
T2  - 19th Annual confernce of the international speech communication association (INTERSPEECH 2018), VOLS 1-6: speech research for emerging markets in multilingual societies
N2  - Voice onset time (VOT), a primary cue for voicing in many languages including English and German, is known to vary greatly between speakers, but also displays robust within-speaker consistencies, at least in English. The current analysis extends these findings to German. VOT measures were investigated from voiceless alveolar and velar stops in CV syllables cued by a visual prompt in a cue-distractor task. Comparably to English, a considerable portion of German VOT variability can be attributed to the syllable’s vowel length and the stop’s place of articulation. Individual differences in VOT still remain irrespective of speech rate. However, significant correlations across places of articulation and between speaker-specific mean VOTs and standard deviations indicate that talkers employ a relatively unified VOT profile across places of articulation. This could allow listeners to more efficiently adapt to speaker-specific realisations.
KW  - speech production
KW  - speech variability
KW  - voice onset time
Y1  - 2018
SN  - 978-1-5108-7221-9
U6  - https://doi.org/10.21437/Interspeech.2018-2288
SN  - 2308-457X
SP  - 1403
EP  - 1407
PB  - ISCA-International Speech Communication Association
CY  - Baixas
ER  -