Abstract
Voice onset time measurements were made of word-initial stop consonants produced by native speakers of Polish in order to determine how the values for the Polish voiced and voiceless categories are distributed along the VOT continuum. According to traditional phonetic descriptions, the Polish language utilizes the voicing lead and short-lag categories along the VOT continuum to contrast its voiced and voiceless stops. VOT measurements were made of stops produced in a number of different speaking conditions: minimal pairs read in citation form, words embedded in controlled sentence contexts, and words excised from both formal and informal discourse. Preliminary results indicate that VOT values for productions of the Polish voiced stop are distributed almost exclusively within the “lead” region of the continuum. Values for the voiceless stop, however, in certain conditions do not cluster in the predicted, contiguous short-lag region of the continuum. In certain speaking conditions Polish voiceless stops cluster within the noncontiguous, long-lag region and tend to be aspirated. Acoustic characteristics of stop consonants as a function of speaking style will be discussed, and results of Polish listeners' identification of synthetic CV syllables along a VOT continuum will be provided.
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