Lisa Davidson @lisabdavidson.bsky.social · 02/06/2026Linguists: does anyone know of a study showing that VOT shortens the longer the word is? (E.g., something like the Moon and Lindblom 1989 paper, except for VOT and not whole segments.) 220
Chandan Narayan @ch-narayan.bsky.social · 02/06/2026This would be the prediction given VOT/vdur relationship (Port and Rotunno, 70s) + the word-length effect of stressed vowel shortening the longer the word gets. I don't know of any direct study of this though 000
Paul Foulkes @paulfoulkesyork.bsky.social · 02/06/2026Eleanor Chodroff must have added this to a chapter we did: "Word-initial voiceless stop VOT is also longer in monosyllabic words than polysyllabic words (Klatt 1975)." Voice onset time, frication, and aspiration in word-initial consonant clusters. JSHR 18(4). 686–706. doi.org/10.1044/jshr...doi.orgVoice Onset Time, Frication, and Aspiration in Word-Initial Consonant Clusters 140
