Voice Onset Time in Children and Adults: Evidence from Mandarin Voiceless Stops

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10.2991/essaeme-18.2018.37How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Voice onset time, children, adult, Mandarin voiceless stops

Abstract

This study seeks to investigate the effect of age and sex on voice onset time(VOT) of stops in Mandarin-speaking children and adults. 13 monolingual children and 13 adults participated in a sentence production experiment. Target sounds were obtained from productions elicited by a sentences reading experiment. Results showed that children had significantly longer VOT values for voiceless aspirated stops in comparison to adults. However, no significant age differences in VOT were observed for voiceless unaspirated stops. In addition, significant sex differences in VOTs were only found for voiceless aspirated stops between adults, whereas no significant sex differences in VOT were found for both aspirated and unaspirated stops produced by children. Possible accounts were discussed.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Junzhou Ma
AU  - Xiaoxiang Chen
AU  - Yezhou Wu
PY  - 2018/07
DA  - 2018/07
TI  - Voice Onset Time in Children and Adults: Evidence from Mandarin Voiceless Stops
BT  - Proceedings of the 2018 4th International Conference on Economics, Social Science, Arts, Education and Management Engineering (ESSAEME 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 193
EP  - 197
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/essaeme-18.2018.37
DO  - 10.2991/essaeme-18.2018.37
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