Affix reduction in spoken Dutch: Probabilistic effects in production and 
perception

Pluymaekers, Mark

doi:10.17617/2.58146

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Affix reduction in spoken Dutch: Probabilistic effects in production and perception

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Pluymaekers, Mark
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Decoding Continuous Speech, MPI for Psycholinguistics, Max Planck Society;

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Pluymaekers, M. (2007). Affix reduction in spoken Dutch: Probabilistic effects in production and perception. PhD Thesis, Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen. doi:10.17617/2.58146.

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This dissertation investigates the roles of several probabilistic variables in the production and comprehension of reduced Dutch affixes. The central hypothesis is that linguistic units with a high probability of occurrence are
more likely to be reduced (Jurafsky et al., 2001; Aylett & Turk, 2004). This hypothesis is tested by analyzing the acoustic realizations of affixes, which are meaning-carrying elements embedded in larger lexical units. Most of the results prove to be compatible with the main hypothesis, but some appear to run counter to its predictions. The final chapter of the thesis discusses the implications of these findings for models of speech production, models of speech perception, and probability-based accounts of reduction.