The effect of stop consonsnt context in word on VOT in ILAMIS Kurdhish

Voicing is one of the controversial matters in phonetics. As we know consonants divide to two parts, voiced and voiceless. The vibration of vocal cords during closure makes consonants voiced and when we don’t have vibration during closure, we will have voiceless consonants. At the onset of syllable, If a vowel or a sonorant consonant comes after consonant, being voiced or voiceless feature affect the voice onset time of vowel or sonorant. VOT (voice onset time) is a term that created by Abramson and Lisker in 1964 and it is the time interval between stop release and beginning of waves which shows larynx movement leads to articlate a vowel. One of the effective factors on VOT is the place of stop consonant in word (context). In this paper VOT measured in PRAATsoftware in three places (initial, intervocalic and after voiceless fricative). Results showed that the difference between VOT in three places is meaningful.