“…How listeners recover the intended meaning from reduced forms has been a major focus of research in psycholinguistics, especially during the last decade, bridging the gap between the fields of spoken-word recognition and speech perception (e.g., Ernestus, Baayen, & Schreuder, 2002;Gaskell & Marslen-Wilson, 1996Gow, 2001Gow, , 2002Gow & Im, 2004;Hura, Lindblom, & Diehl, 1992;Kemps, Ernestus, Schreuder, & Baayen, 2004;Lahiri & Reetz, 2002;Mitterer & Blomert, 2003;Mitterer, Csépe, Honbolygo, & Blomert, 2006;Mitterer & Ernestus, 2006). Most studies focused on the perception of assimilated forms and converged on two findings.…”