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Appendix 1
 
A: Stimuli for English stops
Beep, deal, geese,
Bar, dark, guard,
Boot, do, goose
 
B: Stimuli for Arabic stops
بیر  باب بوک
دیک  دور دار
قال قول قیل
Appendix 2
The comparison of VOT between the learners who produced pre-voiced utterances of English /b d g/ and the Arabic monolinguals' utterances of Arabic /b d g/.
 
[b]
[d]
[g]
Mann-Whitney U
58.00
57.00
75.0
Wilcoxon W
229.00
247.00
265.00
Z
-1.534
-1.744
-.918
Asymp. Sig. (2-tailed)
.125
.081
.359
Exact Sig. [2*(1-tailed Sig.)]
.133a
.085a
.377a
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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