El VOT de las oclusivas del español en habla emocional simulada

Abstract

The goal in this article is to find out whether VOT in voiced and voiceless stops in Peninsular Spanish varies across different emotional dialogical situations. Ten pairs of female university students from Alicante aged 18-25 years old performed poli-functional simulated dialogue in three different situations: joy, anger, and neutrality. After this phase, we analyzed VOT in the three contexts and then compared our values in the neuter form with those obtained in previous studies. Our results show differences with those from previous research on VOT, which are based on the reading of word lists. The statistical analysis, however, only allows us to point out some inconclusive trends in the influence of the emotions examined.