Abstract
This study compared the VOT values of stop consonants produced by bilingual speakers of Hindi‐English with those produced by monolingual speakers of Hindi and English. Specifically, it investigated whether native Hindi speakers use their native VOT values of stop consonants when producing English stops, or if they use the correct/appropriate VOT values as produced by native English speakers. Two subjects in each of the three speaker groups (Hindi monolingual, English monolingual, and Hindi‐English bilingual speakers) produced CVC test syllables in a sentence context. These sentences were acoustically analyzed for the VOT values of the initial stop consonants in the CVC syllables. Results will be discussed within the framework of the equivalence classification hypothesis which claims that, when there are similar phones between two languages, bilingual speakers of those languages will not produce the phones in the second language accurately as they will substitute the similar phone from their native language [J. Flege, J. Phon. 15, 47–65 (1987)].
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