“…There is also initial evidence that the frequent assimilation of unstressed vowels (schwa) affects comprehension (Blom, Ejstrup, & Hopmann, 2018) and that the lenition of intervocalic consonants impairs word recognition (Pharao, Ridder Malmstedt, & Veng, 2017) in spoken Danish. Processability may also be reduced because of the weaker sonority markers of syllable structure in Danish, which may affect the counting of syllables (Kjærbæk, Thomsen, Lambertsen, & Basbøll, 2015; Trecca et al., 2019).…”