This study investigates the effect of lexical tones on VOT length for word-initial aspirated
stops (ie,/pha/,/tha/, and/kha/) in L2 Mandarin production. Fifteen native English speakers …

This study examines the influence of lexical tone on voice onset time (VOT) in Mandarin and
Hakka spoken in Taiwan. The examination of VOT values for Mandarin and Hakka word …

Research on second language or foreign language (hereafter L2) production finds that
learners' native language greatly influences their L2 production. Compared with many other …

This study investigates the voice onset time (VOT) of L2 English stops produced by native
speakers of Chinese at different L2 proficiency levels. Four factors were examined: English …

This study examines the influence of lexical tone upon voice onset time (VOT) in Mandarin
and Hakka. Examination of VOT values for Mandarin and Hakka word-initial stops/p, t, k, ph …

This study, based on corpus materials, investigates the “voice onset time”(VOT) of Mandarin
word-initial stops in isolated syllables according to the effect of vowel contexts produced by …

This study investigates the phonological transfer from bilingual learners' native languages to
the target foreign language (FL), focusing on how the current FL proficiency affects the …

This study examined the Voice onset time (VOT) of Mandarin and English initial position
stops as produced by native American-English speaking learners of Mandarin and also …

Abstract This dissertation investigates Voice Onset Time (VOT), which serves as an essential
property for differentiating plosive consonants in L1 and L2 Mandarin Chinese. It surveys …

This comparative case study uses voice onset time (VOT) to scrutinize whether an English-
speaking native Arabic speaker may create a unique phonetic category for their L2. Many …