Reductions of Spoken Words in Certain Discourse Contexts

Fowler, Carol A.; Levy, Elena T.; Brown, Julie M.

doi:10.1006/jmla.1996.2504

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“…The two phenomena also appear to be sensitive to the structure of extended discourse (Fowler & Levy, 1991;Fowler, Levy, & Brown, 1997;Vonk, Hustinx, & Simmons, 1992). It is not surprising that the same explanation has been offered for the changes in intelligibility and the changes in referring expression: the needs of the listener.…”

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Controlling the Intelligibility of Referring Expressions in Dialogue

Bard

Anderson

Sotillo

et al. 2000

Journal of Memory and Language

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Controlling the Intelligibility of Referring Expressions in Dialogue

Bard

Anderson

Sotillo

et al. 2000

Journal of Memory and Language

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248

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“…Bard et al [2000] replicated this effect for dialogues, showing that it was present irrespective of whether the speaker or the listener had uttered the first token of the word. No repetition effects were found when subjects read words in lists [Fowler, 1988], or when two tokens in a monologue were divided by a major episode boundary [Fowler et al, 1997]. This suggests that it is not so much repetition that matters, but rather whether a word refers to 'given' or 'new' information.…”

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confidence: 79%

Articulatory Planning Is Continuous and Sensitive to Informational Redundancy

Pluymaekers¹,

Ernestus²,

Baayen³

2005

Phonetica

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This study investigates the relationship between word repetition, predictabil-ityfrom neighbouring words, and articulatory reduction in Dutch. For the sevenmost frequent words ending in the adjectival suffix -lijk, 40 occurrences were ran-domlyselected from a large database of face-to-face conversations. Analysis ofthe selected tokens showed that the degree of articulatory reduction (as measuredby duration and number of realized segments) was affected by repetition, pre-dictabilityfrom the previous word and predictability from the following word.Interestingly, not all of these effects were significant across morphemes and tar-getwords. Repetition effects were limited to suffixes, while effects of predictabil-ityfrom the previous word were restricted to the stems of two of the seven targetwords. Predictability from the following word affected the stems of all targetwords equally, but not all suffixes. The implications of these findings for models ofspeech production are discussed.

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“…This constraint was necessary, because first mentions in discourse are known to be distinct in emphasis (Bard et al, 2000;Fowler & Housum, 1987;Fowler, Levy, & Brown, 1997).…”

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