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"abstract": "This study examines the influence of lexical tone on voice onset time (VOT) in Mandarin and Hakka spoken in Taiwan. The examination of VOT values for Mandarin and Hakka word-initial stops /p, t, k, p h , t h , k h / followed by three vowels /i, u, a/ in different lexical tones revealed that lexical tone has significant influence on the VOT values for stops. The results are important as they suggest that future studies should take the influence of lexical tone into account when studying VOT values and when designing wordlists for stops in tonal languages. In Mandarin, stops' VOT values, from the longest to the shortest, are in MR, FR, HL, and HF tones. This sequence is the same as in Liu, Ng, Wan, Wang, and Zhang (2008). Later, however, it was found that it is very likely that the sequence results from the existence of non-words. In order to produce non-words correctly, participants tended to pronounce them at a slower speed, especially those in MR tone. Therefore, we further examined the data without non-words, in which no clear sequence was found. For Hakka, post-hoc tests (Scheffe) show that aspirated stops in entering tones, which are syllables ending with a stop, have significantly shorter VOT values than they have in other tones. Although the tonal effects on VOT values are not consistently found in different sets of data, probably due to a methodology problem, the possibility of tonal effect on VOT values could not be excluded. Tonal effect, thus, should be taken into consideration in designing word lists for VOT studies. Moreover, further studies should include both real words and non-words in separate sets of word lists to verify the current study results.",
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"text": "The aim of this paper is to explore whether lexical tones influence the VOT values for word-initial stops. This issue is important because VOT is considered one of the reliable acoustic features for differentiating consonant stops (Cho & Ladefoged, 1999; G\u00f3sy, 2001; Lisker & Abramson, 1964; Riney, Takagi, Ota, & Uchida, 2007; Rochet & Fei, 1991; Zheng & Li, 2005) and it has been applied recently to the study of the language production of patients with language deficits or disorders (Auzou, Ozsancak, Morris, Jan, Eustache, & Hannequin, 2000; J\u00e4ncke, 1994) . Among the languages being investigated, some are tonal languages, i.e. Mandarin, Cantonese, and Taiwanese. In a tonal language, the duration of each lexical tone (which can change the meaning of a word) differs slightly. Consequently, it is possible that lexical tone will affect stops' VOT to some extent; nevertheless, few studies have taken this factor into consideration when studying tonal languages. Therefore, the current study examines two tonal languages, Mandarin and Hakka spoken in Taiwan, to verify the effects of lexical tone. It is hoped that the results of the current study can establish the groundwork for future studies related to VOTs in tonal languages. If lexical tone does influence VOT, it should be considered when creating speech materials in future studies for tonal languages. Lisker and Abramson (1964) defined VOT as the temporal interval from the release of an initial stop to the onset of glottal pulsing for a following vowel. VOT has been considered a reliable phonetic cue for categorizing stop consonants (i.e., voiced versus voiceless or unaspirated versus aspirated) in various languages (Cho & Ladefoged, 1999; G\u00f3sy, 2001; Keating, Linker, & Huffman, 1983; Lisker & Abramson, 1964; Riney et al., 2007; Rochet & Fei, 1991; Zheng & Li, 2005) . In addition, by comparing VOT values for stops produced by native and non-native speakers for specific languages, researchers have put forth specific suggestions for language learning and teaching (Liao, 2005; Riney & Takagi, 1999; Zheng & Li, 2005) . Moreover, recently, researchers have studied production deficits of aphasia, apraxia, and stuttering patients by observing their VOT values for stops (J\u00e4ncke, 1994; Auzou et al., 2000; Tsen, 1994) .",
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"text": "As for the influence of vowel context, Lisker and Abramson (1967) reported that the vowels following the consonants do not have a significant effect on stops' VOTs. Recently, however, other researchers have made opposing claims. Morris, McCrea, & Herring (2008) , who studied English word-initial stops, claimed that stops preceding the high vowels /i/ and /u/ had longer VOTs than stops preceding the low vowel /a/. Similar results were revealed in Rochet and Fei (1991) , Chao, Khattab, and Chen (2006) , and Chen, Chao, and Peng (2007) studies of Mandarin and G\u00f3sy's (2001) study of Hungarian. Furthermore, G\u00f3sy (2001) indicated that the higher the tongue position, the longer the VOTs for the preceding voiceless stops. Fant (1973) , however, found the opposite to be true in a study of Swedish: the VOTs for aspirated stops preceding /a/ were longer than the VOTs for stops preceding /i/ and /u/. Fant's results are extraordinary, as most studies report that stops preceding high vowels tend to have longer VOTs than stops preceding low vowels.",
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"text": "Moreover, speaking rate might have influences on stops' VOTs. Kessinger and Blumstein (1997) , who investigated English, French, and Thai, claimed that the speaking rate affected VOT values for long lag stops in Thai and English and for pre-voiced stops in Thai and French, but did not influence VOTs in the short lag category. Magloire and Green (1999) suggested that the speaking rate affected English monolinguals' VOT production and Spanish monolinguals' production of pre-voicing of the voiced stops. By examining English, Kessinger and Blumstein (1998) also reported that both VOT and vowel duration increased as the speaking rate slowed down. G\u00f3sy's (2001) study results further proved this. G\u00f3sy found that Hungarian bilabial and velar stops had significantly shorter mean VOTs in natural fluent speech than in carefully produced speech. Therefore, it is reasonable to expect that, in careful speech, the speaking rate will decrease and the accompanying VOT will get longer.",
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"text": "lists mean VOT values and standard deviation of Mandarin stops in each lexical tone. ANOVA tests revealed that the lexical tone significantly influences VOTs of stops [unaspirated stops, F(3, 972) = 6.5506, p < .001; aspirated stops, F(3, 972) = 12.0121, p < .001]. A post-hoc test reveals that aspirated stops in HF have significantly shorter mean"
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"content": "<table><tr><td/><td/><td colspan=\"3\">With non-words</td><td/><td/><td/><td colspan=\"3\">Without non-words</td><td/></tr><tr><td/><td colspan=\"3\">unaspirated stops</td><td colspan=\"2\">aspirated stops</td><td/><td colspan=\"2\">unaspirated stops</td><td/><td colspan=\"2\">aspirated stops</td></tr><tr><td/><td colspan=\"2\">Mean SD</td><td/><td colspan=\"2\">mean SD</td><td/><td colspan=\"2\">mean SD</td><td/><td colspan=\"2\">mean SD</td></tr><tr><td>HL</td><td colspan=\"3\">20.20 (11.90)</td><td colspan=\"3\">92.72 (25.53)</td><td colspan=\"2\">17.71 (9.95)</td><td/><td colspan=\"2\">88.69 (20.4)</td></tr><tr><td>MR</td><td colspan=\"3\">21.10 (12.68)</td><td colspan=\"3\">101.02 (30.21)</td><td colspan=\"2\">13.99 (6.03)</td><td/><td colspan=\"3\">89.47 (23.31)</td></tr><tr><td>FR</td><td colspan=\"3\">20.89 (13.35)</td><td colspan=\"3\">97.03 (27.75)</td><td colspan=\"2\">17.00 (10.98)</td><td/><td colspan=\"3\">92.30 (23.49)</td></tr><tr><td>HF</td><td colspan=\"3\">18.42 (9.94)</td><td colspan=\"3\">89.4 (25.72)</td><td>16.32</td><td>(9.07)</td><td/><td colspan=\"3\">85.62 (24.18)</td></tr><tr><td colspan=\"13\">Table 2. Mean VOT values of six Mandarin stops with different lexical tones. All</td></tr><tr><td/><td colspan=\"7\">measurements are in milliseconds (ms).</td><td/><td/><td/><td/></tr><tr><td/><td/><td colspan=\"4\">With non-words (mean)</td><td/><td/><td colspan=\"4\">Without non-words (mean)</td></tr><tr><td/><td>p</td><td>t</td><td>k</td><td>p h</td><td>t h</td><td>k h</td><td>p</td><td>t</td><td>k</td><td>p h</td><td>t h</td><td>k h</td></tr><tr><td colspan=\"7\">HL 14.4 14.7 31.5 90.4 82.6 105.1</td><td colspan=\"6\">12.0 14.7 27.9 90.4 82.6 95.2</td></tr><tr><td colspan=\"7\">MR 16.0 15.1 32.2 89.9 91.1 122.1</td><td colspan=\"2\">12.3 15.1</td><td>*</td><td colspan=\"3\">89.9 88.9 97.4</td></tr><tr><td>FR</td><td colspan=\"6\">15.0 14.9 32.7 92.3 90.3 108.5</td><td colspan=\"6\">11.3 14.9 34.7 90.2 90.3 97.8</td></tr><tr><td colspan=\"7\">HF 13.3 14.2 27.7 85.0 82.1 101.0</td><td colspan=\"5\">11.8 14.2 31.8 85.0 82.1</td><td>*</td></tr><tr><td colspan=\"3\">*No real word data</td><td/><td/><td/><td/><td/><td/><td/><td/><td/></tr></table>",
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"content": "<table><tr><td/><td>35.0</td><td/><td>Tone</td></tr><tr><td/><td/><td/><td>Low</td></tr><tr><td/><td>30.0</td><td/><td>Rising Mid</td></tr><tr><td/><td/><td/><td>Falling</td></tr><tr><td>Mean VOT</td><td>20.0 25.0</td><td/><td>High Level Low Entering</td></tr><tr><td/><td/><td/><td>Low</td></tr><tr><td/><td/><td/><td>Level</td></tr><tr><td/><td>15.0</td><td/><td>High</td></tr><tr><td/><td/><td/><td>Entering</td></tr><tr><td/><td>10.0</td><td/></tr><tr><td/><td>/p/</td><td>/t/</td><td>/k/</td></tr><tr><td/><td/><td>Stop</td></tr></table>",
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"text": "table showing interaction between variables is listed in Appendix 3."
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"content": "<table><tr><td/><td colspan=\"2\">Unaspirated stops</td><td/><td/><td colspan=\"2\">Aspirated stops</td></tr><tr><td/><td>mean</td><td>(SD)</td><td/><td/><td>mean</td><td>(SD)</td></tr><tr><td>LR</td><td>20</td><td>(11.56)</td><td/><td/><td>86.83</td><td>(25.8)</td></tr><tr><td>MF</td><td>16.94</td><td>(8)</td><td/><td/><td>84.67</td><td>(26.56)</td></tr><tr><td>HL</td><td colspan=\"2\">18.88 (11.02)</td><td/><td/><td>81.32</td><td>(23.73)</td></tr><tr><td>LE</td><td>17.19</td><td>(9.44)</td><td/><td/><td>62.93</td><td>(18.36)</td></tr><tr><td>LL</td><td>19.4</td><td>(11.43)</td><td/><td/><td>90.08</td><td>(27.08)</td></tr><tr><td>HE</td><td>16.11</td><td>(7.98)</td><td/><td/><td>61.53</td><td>(20.36)</td></tr><tr><td colspan=\"7\">Table 4. Mean VOT values of six Hakka stops with different lexical tones. All</td></tr><tr><td/><td colspan=\"3\">measurements are in milliseconds (ms)</td><td/><td/><td/></tr><tr><td/><td/><td colspan=\"3\">Without non-words (mean)</td><td/><td/></tr><tr><td/><td>p</td><td>t</td><td>k</td><td>p h</td><td>t h</td><td>k h</td></tr><tr><td>LR</td><td>13.4</td><td>16.2</td><td>30.3</td><td>88.7</td><td>76.1</td><td>97.0</td></tr><tr><td>MF</td><td>12.9</td><td>14.4</td><td>23.6</td><td>77.0</td><td>80.4</td><td>96.2</td></tr><tr><td>HL</td><td>12.4</td><td>15.0</td><td>28.4</td><td>80.8</td><td>79.1</td><td>83.9</td></tr><tr><td>LE</td><td>11.9</td><td>13.8</td><td>25.6</td><td>57.0</td><td>60.4</td><td>70.4</td></tr><tr><td>LL</td><td>13.5</td><td>15.7</td><td>29.7</td><td>81.0</td><td>82.5</td><td>110.9</td></tr><tr><td>HE</td><td>11.1</td><td>15.3</td><td>24.2</td><td>54.2</td><td>62.0</td><td>74.4</td></tr></table>",
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