abstract:In phonetics, voice onset time, commonly abbreviated VOT, is a feature of the production of stop consonants. It is defined as the length of time that passes between the release of a stop consonant and the onset of voicing, the vibration of the vocal folds, or, according to other authors, periodicity.
The resultof the firstexperimentshows thatUygurword-initial stopsbelongs toweakeraspirated category and it can berealized through twophoneticcategoriesofvoiceonsettime.