Consonant voicing in the Buckeye corpus.

Many claims about the prevalence of phonetic voicing in English obstruents have been made in the literature over the decades, particularly concerning the stops and affricate [b, d, ɡ, ʤ]. An examination of this literature reveals that many of these claims are based on a paucity of speech data and measurements. For the present study, voiced consonants in the Buckeye corpus of American English (39 speakers) have been measured to determine the percentage of their duration that shows vocal cord vibrations.