This study attempts to determine the ways in which linguistic timing factors combine with
each other in the production of English and specifically, to test and explore aspects of the
timing model of Klatt [J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 59, 1208–1221 (1976)]. In two experiments the
tensity feature of a sentence stressed vowel and the voicing of the following stop were
changed along with a variable that alters the length of the VC syllable. The duration of both
the vowel, V, and the following stop closure, C, were measured. In the first experiment either …