Variation in Dutch: From written MOGELIJK to spoken MOK

Keune, K.; Ernestus, Mirjam; Hout, R.W.N.M. van; Baayen, R. Harald

doi:10.1515/cllt.2005.1.2.183

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“…7 For example, of recurrently lacks a vowel portion, and when it does have a vowel, it is recurrently central rather than back. It can also be seen that eigenlijk occurs in its highly reduced, monosyllabic form, as previously described by Ernestus (2000), Keune et al (2005) and Plug (2005). With reference to the two subtypes of repair, of the 27 instances with editing terms, 15 are error repairs and 12 are appropriateness repairs.…”

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Phonetic reduction and informational redundancy in self-initiated self-repair in Dutch

Plug

2011

Journal of Phonetics

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Section: Editing Termssupporting

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Phonetic reduction and informational redundancy in self-initiated self-repair in Dutch

Plug

2011

Journal of Phonetics

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“…We restricted ourselves to the recordings made in the Netherlands, since previous research suggests that speakers from the Netherlands and speakers from the Dutch speaking part of Belgium may show different reduction patterns (Keune, Ernestus, van Hout, & Baayen, 2005). We focused on ten words (listed in Table 2) that occur in all components and that are known to be prone to reduction in casual conversations (e.g., Ernestus, 2000).These ten words are semantically weak and therefore seldom accented, which explains why they are so often reduced.…”

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The effect of speech situation on the occurrence of reduced word pronunciation variants

Ernestus

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Verboom

2015

Journal of Phonetics

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This article presents two studies investigating how the situation in which speech is uttered affects the frequency with which words are reduced. Study 1 is based on the Spoken Dutch Corpus, which consists of 15 components, nearly all representing a different speech situation. This study shows that the components differ in how often ten semantically weak words are highly reduced. The differences are especially large between the components with scripted and unscripted speech. Within the component group of unscripted speech, the formality of the situation shows an effect. Study 2 investigated segment reduction in a shadowing experiment in which participants repeated Dutch carefully and casually articulated sentences. Prefixal schwa and suffixal /t/ were absent in participants' responses to both sentences types as often as in formal interviews. If a segment was absent, this appeared to be mostly due to extreme coarticulation, unlike in speech produced in less formal situations. Speakers thus adapted more to the formal situation of the experiment than to the stimuli to be shadowed. We conclude that speech situation affects the occurrence of reduced word pronunciation variants, which should be accounted for by psycholinguistic models of speech production and comprehension.

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“…These studies confirm the general differences observed between male and female speech: women tend to use standard and prestigious forms more often than men (e.g., Labov, 1972), and they also tend to take the lead in language change (e.g., Chambers 1995;Labov, 2001). For instance, women delete glides (Phillips, 1994) and word-final /t/s and /d/s (Guy, 1991) less often than men in American English, and they less often reduce the suffix lijk /lək/, for instance to [k], in Dutch (Keune, Ernestus, Van Hout, Baayen, 2005). In contrast, women more often use reduced pronunciation variants that are the norm or have prestige and that may be used in more formal speech as well (and are therefore of a very different nature than the reduced variants attested only in spontaneous conversations).…”

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Acoustic reduction and the roles of abstractions and exemplars in speech processing

Ernestus

2014

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Acoustic reduction refers to the frequent phenomenon in conversational speech that words are produced with fewer or lenited segments compared to their citation forms. The few published studies on the production and comprehension of acoustic reduction have important implications for the debate on the relevance of abstractions and exemplars in speech processing. This article discusses these implications. It first briefly introduces the key assumptions of simple abstractionist and simple exemplar-based models. It then discusses the literature on acoustic reduction and draws the conclusion that both types of models need to be extended to explain all findings. The ultimate model should allow for the storage of different pronunciation variants, but also reserve an important role for phonetic implementation. Furthermore, the recognition of a highly reduced pronunciation variant requires top down information and leads to activation of the corresponding unreduced variant, the variant that reaches listeners' consciousness. These findings are best accounted for in hybrids models, assuming both abstract representations and exemplars. None of the hybrid models formulated so far can account for all data on reduced speech and we need further research for obtaining detailed insight into how speakers produce and listeners comprehend reduced speech.

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Variation in Dutch: From written MOGELIJK to spoken MOK

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Cited by 33 publications

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Phonetic reduction and informational redundancy in self-initiated self-repair in Dutch

Phonetic reduction and informational redundancy in self-initiated self-repair in Dutch

The effect of speech situation on the occurrence of reduced word pronunciation variants

Acoustic reduction and the roles of abstractions and exemplars in speech processing

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