Function words of lexical bundles: The relation of frequency and reduction

Shannon Lemke, Antoine Tremblay, Benjamin V. Tucker

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Abstract

Studies of spontaneous speech have shown frequency effects on the amount of reduction produced by speakers, demonstrating that predictability facilitates production of a target word [Shi (2005); Jurafsky (2001); Bell (2003)]. This paper investigates the amount of reduction produced in laboratory recorded speech and considers the effect of frequency on the duration of function words in fourword sequences. It is also found that the influence of frequency has an effect on holistically storing these bundles. An interaction between word position and the thirdorder transitional probability (ABC → D) has been established, indicating that greater thirdorder transitional probabilities predict shorter function word durations in the first and second positions of a bundle, and, therefore, involve more durational reduction. The current research shows that, just as frequency affects reduction in spontaneous speech, there is an effect in laboratory produced speech as well.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Article number060009
JournalProceedings of Meetings on Acoustics
Volume6
DOIs
StatePublished - 2009
Externally publishedYes
Event157th Meeting Acoustical Society of America 2009 - Portland, OR, United States
Duration: May 18 2009May 22 2009

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Acoustics and Ultrasonics

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