Abstract
In the results of the writer's previous perceptual experiment [Phonetica 34, 218–228 (1977)] which was based on stimulus materials edited from spoken utterances, the minimally contrasting test utterances it's dill, it still, it's still were perceptually distinguished by appropriate values of /s/‐noise duration and silent interval in the context of short delayed VOT. The utterance it's till containing a voiceless aspirated stop after /s/ was heard in 75% of the judgments of otherwise similar stimuli containing long delayed VOT. A recent reanalysis of the other 25% of the judgments suggests that the potency of the long delayed VOT in these tokens had been weakened in trading with /s/‐noise duration and silent interval. These findings have been replicated in perceptual data from a new group of subjects. Lisker's work [Haskins Final Report 11, B‐11, 1–9 (1965)] based on spectrographic measurements of similar utterances has been an important resource. For the stop after /s/ at word boundary, VOT as a voicing cue appears to be involved in a three‐way trading relationship.
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