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- Title
Cumulative context effects and variant lexical representations: Word use and English final t/d deletion.
- Authors
RAYMOND, WILLIAM D.; BROWN, ESTHERL; HEALY, ALICEF
- Abstract
Word production variability is widespread in speech, and rates of variant production correlate with many factors. Recent research suggests mental representation of both canonical word forms and distinct reduced variants, and that production and processing are sensitive to variant frequency. What factors lead to frequencyweighted variant representations? An experiment manipulated following context and word repetition for final t/d words in read, narrative English speech. Modeling the experimentally generated data statistically showed higher final-segment deletion in tokens followed by consonant-initial words, but no evidence of increased deletion with repetition, regardless of context. Deletion rates were also higher the greater a word's cumulative exposure to consonant contexts (measured from distributional statistics), but there was no effect of word frequency. Token effects are interpreted in terms of articulation processes. The type-level context effect is interpreted within exemplar and usage-based models of language to suggest that experiences with word variants in contexts register as frequency-weighted representations.
- Subjects
CUMULATIVE instruction; LEXICAL phonology; WORD recognition; ENGLISH speeches, addresses, etc.; VOICE frequency
- Publication
Language Variation & Change, 2016, Vol 28, Issue 2, p175
- ISSN
0954-3945
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S0954394516000041