title: The recognition of reduced word forms.
abstract: This article addresses the recognition of reduced word forms, which are frequent in casual speech. We describe two experiments on Dutch showing that listeners only recognize highly reduced forms well when these forms are presented in their full context and that the probability that a listener recognizes a word form in limited context is strongly correlated with the degree of reduction of the form. Moreover, we show that the effect of degree of reduction can only partly be interpreted as the effect of the intelligibility of the acoustic signal, which is negatively correlated with degree of reduction. We discuss the consequences of our findings for models of spoken word recognition and especially for the role that storage plays in these models.
authors.affiliation: Interfaculty Research Unit for Language and Speech, Max-Plank Institute for Psycholinguistics, University of Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands. Mirjam.Ernestus@mpi.nl
authors.forename: Mirjam
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ernestus
authors.forename: Harald
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Baayen
authors.forename: Rob
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Schreuder
mesh_terms: D003071:Cognition; D006801:Humans; D011897:Random Allocation; D013067:Speech Perception; D014825:Vocabulary