The role of duration as a cue for voicing of sibilants in Slovenian

We investigate the relative contributions of periodicity and duration as acoustic cues for voicing on sibilants in Slovenian. We find that (i) Slovenian exhibits the cross-linguistic tendency for voiced fricatives to be shorter than voiceless ones, and that (ii) periodicity and duration serve as complementary acoustic cues for identifying a sibilant as voiced or voiceless, with the relative contribution of the two cues varying across speakers.