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Variation in phonetic reduction: Linguistic and social factors| old_uid | 11711 |
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| title | Variation in phonetic reduction: Linguistic and social factors |
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| start_date | 2016/07/01 |
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| schedule | 11h-12h |
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| online | no |
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| details | Organiser: Pauline Welby |
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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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