Abstract
This paper reexamines the well-established view in phonology that in Russian there is a voicing neutralization of obstruents in word final position. An experiment was conducted with Russian data that included coronal stops in final position. For each target word four measurements were taken: (1) the duration of the vowel that precedes the target obstruent, (2) the duration of the final obstruent, (3) duration of voicing into the consonant closure, (4) the burst duration of the final stop. The results of Anova statistics test demonstrated that the only variable that had a significant difference between the two groups was the burst duration. However discriminant analysis showed that about 74% of tokens were correctly classified. These results mean that an incomplete neutralization effect exists in Russian in word final position.
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