Voice Onset Time In Children

Abstract

The present study reports VOT for stop consonants \p\, \t\ and \k\ in children. 100 male and female children belonging to 5 age groups, ranging from 4-12 years were used to elicit 3 sentences as responses to 3 picture cards. The sentences elicited as responses consisted of the consonants /p/ and \k\ in initial position and /t/ in medial position of the words. These were analyzed using High Resolution Signal Analyzer (B and K 2033) to obtain VOT. The results showed that there was no significant difference in VOT between males and females. Between different age groups of the same sex, except for the children of 4-5 years, no other group had shown significantly different VOT values.