Abstract
In American English, voiceless codas /t, p/ are often realized with glottalization on the preceding vowel. Previous claims suggest that such glottalization can serve to enhance /t/ or, more generally, voicelessness of coda stops. This study examines the timecourse of word recognition to test these claims. 40 American English listeners participated in an eye-tracking study, where they heard synthesized glottalized and non-glottalized versions of CVC English words ending in /p, t, b, d/ while looking at a display with two words presented orthographically. Target words were presented with a minimal pair differing in place of articulation (e.g., cop-cot), or voicing (e.g., bat-bad, cap-cab). Our results indicate that listeners fixated to target words ending in /t/ marginally faster when they heard the glottalized version and when the competitor presented was a word ending in /p/. Glottalization did not result in faster fixation to targets for words ending in /p/. We also found a strong inhibitory effect—lower...
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