Abstract:Phonetic reduction due to lexical frequency, phonological neighborhood density, and discourse mention, as well as speaking style and social-indexical variation can constrain listeners’ ability to identify spoken single word tokens. In phrasal contexts, however, semantic predictability facilitates word recognition. The aim of the current study was to investigate how semantic predictability influences the intelligibility of words that vary in their lexical, stylistic, and socio-indexical properties. Listeners we… Show more
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