Clues to the voicing identification of word-final stops in English - focusing on their consonantal features -

영어 어말 폐쇄음의 유.무성인지 실마리에 관한 연구 -폐쇄음의 자음적 특징을 중심으로-

This study, as a successive study of Ko(1998a) which investigates the effect of vowel length contrast on the voicing of the word-final consonants in English, examines if other phonetic features of word-final stops themselves affect the Perception of their voicing. They are closure duration, voicing status during closure period, release portion. 68 Korean students learning English as a second language in Wonkwang University participate as subjects for this study. The results showed that they are not important clues to Korean students to the voicing identification of the word-final stops in English.