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Voice onset time in Shekgalagari stops.

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Author list: Monaka, K. C.

Publication year: 2006

Volume number: 3

Start page: 169

End page: 184

Number of pages: 16

ISSN: 1813-2227

eISSN: eISSN: 1813-2227

URL: https://www.ajol.info/index.php/lwati/article/view/36807



The aim of this paper is to determine the efficacy of Voice Onset Time (VOT) in distinguishing a series of word initial homorganic stop consonants in Shengologa, a dialect of Shekgalagarhi, a South-eastern Bantu language
of the Western Sotho-Tswana group. Issues pertinent to VOT are also addressed: namely VOT as a function of place of articulation; and the effect of phonetic context on VOT; specifically the influence of the following
vowel. Compared with other stops, ejectives have often manifested long VOT values in some languages with VOT values of around 80+ ms in duration being not uncommon. The argument is that in Shengologa, the
voiceless unaspirated stops are pulmonic stops rather than glottalic. Voiceless aspirated stops in general manifest long duration of aspiration.


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