On the Durational Reduction of Repeated Mentions: Recency and Speaker Effects

There are conflicting views in the literature as to the role of listener-adaptive processes in language production in general and articulatory reduction in particular. We present two novel pieces of corpus evidence that corroborate the hypothesis that non-lexical variation of durations is related to the speed of retrieval of stored motor code chunks and durational reduction is the result of facilitatory priming.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2008
• Where: LREC
• Authors: Viktor Trón
• Keywords: Articulatory Reduction, Education, LREC 2008, Motor Code Chunks, Non-lexical Variation