Correlations and Functional Explanations in Laryngeal Phonetics and Phonology: Evidence from New Zealand English
Varieties of English differ in (i) the amount of aspiration/voicing in plosives, traditionally measured in Voice Onset Time (VOT), and (ii) the degree of vowel clipping before fortis consonants (the Voicing Effect). The two seem to correlate with each other, with a possible functional explanation, but they also interac...