Probabilistic effects on French [t] duration

Torreira, Francisco; Ernestus, Mirjam

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Probabilistic effects on French [t] duration

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Torreira, Francisco
Language Comprehension Group, MPI for Psycholinguistics, Max Planck Society;
Center for Language Studies , External Organizations;

Ernestus, Mirjam
Language Comprehension Group, MPI for Psycholinguistics, Max Planck Society;
Center for Language Studies , External Organizations;

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Torreira, F., & Ernestus, M. (2009). Probabilistic effects on French [t] duration. In Proceedings of the 10th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech 2009) (pp. 448-451). Causal Productions Pty Ltd.

Cite as: https://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-0013-3C04-2

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The present study shows that [t] consonants are affected by probabilistic factors in a syllable-timed language as French, and in spontaneous as well as in journalistic speech. Study 1 showed a word bigram frequency effect in spontaneous French, but its exact nature depended on the corpus on which the probabilistic measures were based. Study 2 investigated journalistic speech and showed an effect of the joint frequency of the test word and its following word. We discuss the possibility that these probabilistic effects are due to the speaker’s planning of upcoming words, and to the speaker’s adaptation to the listener’s needs.