Relative Difficulty in the Acquisition of the Phonetic Parameters of Obstruent Coda Voicing: Evidence from Mandarin-Speaking Learners of French.

While no group differences were found between the Mandarin-speaking learners and French controls in either condition, the language group-by-voicing interaction was primarily driven by the underlying voiced obstruent condition, in which group differences approached significance; the Mandarin learners produced a relatively smaller duration ratio ( M = 1.62) than the French controls ( M = 1.87). 5.2 Percentage of obstruent coda voicing Figure 5 provides an overview of the Mandarin-speaking learners’ and French controls’ percent of obstruent coda voicing.

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