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Traditional phonetic descriptions of Czech consonants assume that voiced segments are always realized with complete vocal fold vibration. The present research addresses the importance of voicing in Czech labial plosives using a subset of the Prague Phonetic Corpus. Corpus studies provide a power ful tool to study variation in actual realizations of speech and offer material to investigate its impact on perception. In the first study the extent of vocal fold vibration in voiced plosive /b/ in intervocalic position was examined. The results show that a considerable number of these plosives were realized with devoiced portions. In the second study it was tested whether Czech phonetically experienced listeners were able to recognize differences in voicing. A strong relationship was found between the amount of vocal fold vibration in the targets and the ratings by the participants indicating that voicing is a good predictor for the phonological voice/voiceless distinction in Czech.
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Jorschick, A.B. (2009). Voicing in Labial Plosives in Czech. In: Esposito, A., Vích, R. (eds) Cross-Modal Analysis of Speech, Gestures, Gaze and Facial Expressions. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5641. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-03320-9_18
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