非発話末におけるロシア語word-final devoicingの音響的実現

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Word-final devoicing is a common phonological process in many languages, including Russian. The current study examines word-final devoicing in utterance-medial position to tease apart word-final devoicing from utterance-final devoicing. Our new findings include: (i) neutralization is incomplete in utterance-medial position; and (ii) stops and fricatives differ in terms of implementation of devoicing. By comparing the current results with the previous studies, we entertain the possibility that phonetic implementations of incomplete neutralization may be sensitive to prosodic positions.