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Variation in phonetic reduction: Linguistic and social factors| old_uid | 10556 |
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| title | Variation in phonetic reduction: Linguistic and social factors |
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| start_date | 2016/01/22 |
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| schedule | 14h |
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| online | no |
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| summary | Temporal and spectral phonetic vowel reduction occurs in “easy” processing contexts relative to “hard” processing contexts, including contexts defined by lexical frequency, lexical neighborhood density, semantic predictability, discourse mention, and speaking style. In this talk, I will present recent research from my laboratory which has revealed complex interactions among these linguistic factors and between these linguistic factors and social factors, such as talker gender and region of origin. These interactions reveal variation in the robustness of phonetic reduction effects across linguistic factors, as well as different patterns of interactions among linguistic and social factors across acoustic domains. These interactions present a challenge to all of the existing models of phonetic reduction and suggest that a more complex view of the relationship between processing demands and phonetic vowel reduction processes is necessary to account for the observed patterns of variation. |
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