Abstract
This study examined how monolingual French speakers produced the stop voicing distinction in stressed and unstressed syllable-initial stops. Syllables were embedded in sentences. Voicing-related differences in durations of VOT, closure and vowel were calculated and analyzed as a function of stress (stressed on the target syllable, stress on the syllable preceding the target syllable). Percentages of closures with voicing were tallied as function of the voicing category of the stops and the stressed condition. Results from ANOVA showed that the absolute durations were smaller in the unstressed than in the stressed condition. The magnitude of the voicing-conditioned related duration differences in VOT, closure and vowel were also influenced by stress.
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