Gordeeva, Olga B.2018-06-292018-06-292007-08Gordeeva, O. (2007) Learnability of laryngeal abduction in voiceless fricatives : cross-linguistic evidence. In: Proceedings of the 16th International Congress of the ICPhS, pp. 433-436.http://www.icphs2007.de/https://eresearch.qmu.ac.uk/handle/20.500.12289/47Previous research of laryngeal-oral gestural coordination in vowel-voiceless fricative sequences (Vf) shows that earlier timing of glottal opening relative to oral constriction is a languageindependent aerodynamic property. In this paper, we provide evidence that the extent of this gestural dissociation is nonetheless learnable in a varietyspecific way, and is, thus, actively controlled. This study shows that in some British English varieties, large temporal laryngeal-oral dissociation in Vf transitions is a correlate of the fricative /voice/ contrast, while the dissociation is much tighter in a language neutralising /voice/ such as Russian. The learnability of Vf-gestures is important in the context of theories on gestural phonology and acoustic multidimensionality of the /voice/ contrast.433-436AspirationFricativesLaryngeal AbductionVoicearticle