SIPhTrA Tutorial on Plosives: VOT and aspiration

Aims:

This tutorial on plosives deals with aspiration and voicing.

Objectives:

If you complete this tutorial you should be able to:

• distinguish aspirated from unaspirated plosives
• recognise aspiration from speech pressure waveforms
• draw diagrams of aspirated and unaspirated plosives
• understand the concept of voice onset time (VOT)