TY - JOUR
AU - Abramson, Arthur S.
AB - LEIGH LISKER and ARTHUR S. ABRAMSON-------- A Cross-Language Study of Voicing in Initial Stops : Acoustical Measurements* J. INTRODUCTION Theoretical background. In diagnosing the phonetic basis for our ability to distinguish between phonemic categories, linguists often invoke the dimen­ sion of voicing to call some categories "voiced" and others "voiceless". In the case of stop consonants it is usual to label as voiced, categories charac­ terized by the presence of 'glottal buzz during the interval of articulatory closure, while absence of buzz during this interval is a mark of voiceless stops. Acoustically the two kinds of stops are in most cases easily dis­ tinguished by reference to their spectrographic patterns; for voiced stops the formantless segment corresponding to the closure interval is traversed by a small number of low-frequency harmonic components, while in the case of voiceless stops the closure interval is essentially blank. But while this difference is an adequate basis for the physical separation of stop categories in many languages, there are some, like English, for which it works only in part. Although in medial position English fb d g/ are voiced and fp t k/ voiceless, in initial position both sets are commonly produced with silent 
TI - A Cross-Language Study of Voicing in Initial Stops: Acoustical Measurements
JF - WORD
DO - 10.1080/00437956.1964.11659830
DA - 1964-01-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/taylor-francis/a-cross-language-study-of-voicing-in-initial-stops-acoustical-5uiaPO608C
SP - 384
EP - 422
VL - 20
IS - 3
DP - DeepDyve
ER -