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This paper investigates the factors that determine the maintenance of voiceless realization of the Spanish voiced stop phonemes /b/ and /d/ in a sample of Chinese students. Since the plosive consonant system of Mandarin Chinese does not contain voiced phonemes, it is common for Chinese students to pronounce the consonants /b/ and /d/ with voiceless realizations. The results of this work, conducted on a sample of nine Chinese students of the Master of Higher Studies of the Spanish Language at the University of Malaga (all of them Mandarin speakers), show that deaf realization occurs mainly when the consonant is found in initial word position. Among the external factors, the speakers with a higher accredited level in the Spanish language who have lived in Spain the longest are those who correctly pronounce voiced stops.
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