“Lax” stops in Korean revisited: VOT neutralization
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This study reinvestigated the VOT values of the three Korean stops according to phonation type by taking factors such as age, place of articulation, syllable type, and speech rate into consideration. Specifically, Silva’s findings and implications (2006) were retested. Data were obtained from nine Seoul female speakers varying 20’, 40’s, and 50’s in terms of age. The results showed that there was a remarkable overlap in VOT values between lax and aspirated stops, indicating that VOT differences between the two stops are being neutralized. Unlike Silva’s findings, the VOT overlap was shown thorough 20’s, 40’s, and 50’s, indicating that there is little relationship between age and the overlap. Similar to Silva’s results, however, lax stops were heavily aspirated (i.e., increasing VOT) while aspirated stops were less aspirated (i.e., decreasing VOT) (i.e., the younger generation, the shorter VOT overall). Two speculations from the present results are made, also based on previous findings (M.-R. Kim 2000, Kim et al. 2002, Kim and Duanmu 2004, Silva 2006). First, since VOT is no longer a cue to distinguish lax from aspirated stops, tone remains to be a primary role to contrast the two stops in both production and perception. Second, since the Korean data is very similar to other languages which have undergone tonogenesis, the present data proposed that it might be the case. (Korea Cyber University)
Abstract
This study reinvestigated the VOT values of the three Korean stops according to phonation type by taking factors such as age, place of articulation, syllable type, and speech rate into consideration. Specifically, Silva’s findings and implications (2006) were retested. Data were obtained from nine Seoul female speakers varying 20’, 40’s, and 50’s in terms of age. The results showed that there was a remarkable overlap in VOT values between lax and aspirated stops, indicating that VOT differences between the two stops are being neutralized. Unlike Silva’s findings, the VOT overlap was shown thorough 20’s, 40’s, and 50’s, indicating that there is little relationship between age and the overlap. Similar to Silva’s results, however, lax stops were heavily aspirated (i.e., increasing VOT) while aspirated stops were less aspirated (i.e., decreasing VOT) (i.e., the younger generation, the shorter VOT overall). Two speculations from the present results are made, also based on previous findings (M.-R. Kim 2000, Kim et al. 2002, Kim and Duanmu 2004, Silva 2006). First, since VOT is no longer a cue to distinguish lax from aspirated stops, tone remains to be a primary role to contrast the two stops in both production and perception. Second, since the Korean data is very similar to other languages which have undergone tonogenesis, the present data proposed that it might be the case. (Korea Cyber University)
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