Phonetic reduction and informational redundancy in self-initiated self-repair in Dutch

Plug, Leendert

doi:10.1016/j.wocn.2010.08.001

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“…In relation to EXPECTATION 5, our analysis confirms Plug's (2011) finding of a predominance of temporal compression that is, a local increase in speech tempo following the reparandum offset. As indicated above, given that EXPECTATION 1 is not met, we cannot explain this predominance in general probabilistic terms: while a predominant fall in informativeness between reparandum and repair items is theoretically plausible, none of our probabilistic measures suggest that this is present in our dataset.…”

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“…So far, the only examination of the relationship between informativeness and repair tempo is that of Plug (2011). Consistent with the first prediction above, Plug (2011) reports a predominance of temporal compression that is, a relative speeding up after the repair initiation in a collection of Dutch self-repairs.…”

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Informativeness, Timing and Tempo in Lexical Self-Repair

Plug

2016

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Running head: Temporal organization in lexical repairAcknowledgements: This work was supported by ESRC grant RES-061-25-0417 'Prosodic marking revisited: The phonetics of self-initiated self-repair in Dutch'. I would like to thank Paul Carter for his contribution to data selection, phonetic analysis and preliminary modelling; Mirjam Ernestus for her generous offers to provide frequency counts and recruit raters for the fill-in-the-gap task; and Christina Englert, Sanne Berends, Leen Plug, Gerard Berends, Anne van Hoek, Erik Verboom, Ilse Pit, Lisa Rommers, Nadia Klijn, Stef Piers, Thera Baayen, Marianne Plug and Ilona van der Linden for their participation in the rating exercises. I am also grateful to three Language and Speech reviewers for their constructive comments on three drafts of this article. 2 AbstractThis paper presents a study of the temporal organization of lexical repair in spontaneous Dutch speech. It assesses the extent to which offset-to-repair duration and repair tempo can be predicted on the basis of offset timing, reparandum tempo and measures of the informativeness of the crucial lexical items in the repair. Specifically, we address the expectations that repairs that are initiated relatively early are produced relatively fast throughout, and that relatively highly informative repairs are produced relatively slowly. For informativeness, we implement measures based on repair semantics, lexical frequency counts and cloze probabilities. Our results highlight differences between factual and linguistic error repairs, which have not been consistently distinguished in previous studies, and provide some evidence to support the notion that repairs that are initiated relatively early are produced relatively fast. They confirm that lexical frequency counts are rough measures of contextual predictability at best, and reveal very few significant effects of our informativeness measures on the temporal organization of lexical self-repair. Moreover, while we can confirm that most repairs have a repair portion that is fast relative to its reparandum, this cannot be attributed to the relative informativeness of the two portions. Our findings inform the current debate on the division of labour between inner and overt speech monitoring, and suggest that while the influence of informativeness on speech production is extensive, it is not ubiquitous.3

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Informativeness, Timing and Tempo in Lexical Self-Repair

Plug

2016

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“…Fromkin 1973, Baars et al 1975, Nooteboom 1980, Levelt 1983, Levelt & Cutler 1983, Blackmer & Mitton 1991, Postma & Kolk 1993, Shattuck-Hufnagel & Cutler 1999, Shriberg 2001, Jasperson 2002, Nooteboom 2005a, Hartsuiker 2006, Seyfeddinipur et al 2008, Nooteboom 2010, Plug 2011, Tydgat et al 2011. For phoneticians, the interest lies primarily in how speakers deal with the disfluency associated with repair, while for psycholinguists repair 'may reveal principles of organization of the speech production process that would be hard to discover on the basis of laboratory data alone' (Levelt 1984: 105) -in particular with reference to self-monitoring.…”

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Timing and tempo in spontaneous phonological error repair

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Carter

2014

Journal of Phonetics

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This paper reports on a study of the temporal characteristics of phonological error repair in spontaneous Dutch speech, with a focus on how the articulation rate of the correct target word production -the repair -compares to that of the preceding erroneous target word attempt -the reparandum. The study is motivated by two findings from recent independent studies: first, that selfrepair is generally associated with relative temporal compression -that is, a local increase in articulation rate -following the repair initiation; second, that the timing of the repair initiation relative to the error is consequential for the prosody of the repair component. This study investigates to what extent these findings generalise to a collection of spontaneous phonological error repairs sampled from the Spoken Dutch Corpus. The study also asks how best to quantify repair timing, considers whether timing is consequential for the duration of the 'offset-to-repair interval', and tests for effects of lexical frequency. The results confirm that temporal compression following the repair initiation is more common than temporal expansion, and that repair timing has a significant effect on both offset-to-repair duration and repair tempo -at least in a subset of the data. A frequency effect is also observed. The results suggest that proportional measures of target word completeness provide the most informative quantifications of repair timing in modelling the overall temporal organisation of phonological error repairs.

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“…Shriberg (2001) suggests that this prolongation is different from typical phrase-and sentence-final lengthening and that its intonation also differs, in that it does not display the boundary tones that are characteristic of phrase and sentence boundaries. Shriberg (2001), Nakatani and Hirschberg (1994) and Plug (2011) give descriptions of the acoustic-phonetic properties of reparanda, the editing phase and repairs, which will not be detailed here. It is worth mentioning that, although there are acoustic features in reparanda that can be detected on close inspection, they may not always be perceptually salient: Listeners are not often able to detect that a repair is about to occur, when they have heard the full reparandum .…”

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“…), The handbook of speech production (pp. 445-469) Wiley-Blackwell 43 aspects of repair (Nakatani and Hirschberg 1994, Plug 2011, Shriberg 2001. We focus on one prominent aspect.…”

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Fluency and Disfluency

Lickley¹

2015

The Handbook of Speech Production

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Phonetic reduction and informational redundancy in self-initiated self-repair in Dutch

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