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Abstract | ||
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Words are reduced in spontaneous speech. If reductions are constrained by functional (i.e., perception and production) constraints, they should not be arbitrary. This hypothesis was tested by examing the pronunciations of high- to mid-frequency words in a Dutch and a German spontaneous speech corpus. In logistic-regression models the "reduction likelihood" of a phoneme was predicted by fixed-effect predictors such as position within the word, word length, word frequency, and stress, as well as random effects such as phoneme identity and word. The models for Dutch and German show many communalities. This is in line with the assumption that similar functional constraints influence reductions in both languages. |
Year | Venue | Keywords |
|---|---|---|
2008 | ExLing | german,functional constraints,dutch,reduction,spontaneous speech,logistic regression model,random effects,fixed effects,word frequency |
Field | DocType | Citations |
Speech corpus,Random effects model,Word lists by frequency,Computer science,Word error rate,Phonetics,Speech recognition,Natural language processing,Artificial intelligence,Speech perception,Perception,German | Conference | 2 |
PageRank | References | Authors |
0.55 | 1 | 1 |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Holger Mitterer | 1 | 68 | 12.24 |