Predictability effects on durations of content and function words in conversational English

Predictability Effects on Durations of Content and Function Words in Conversational English

In a regression study of conversational speech, we show that frequency, contextual predictability and repetition have separate contributions to word duration, despite their substantial correlations. Moreover, contentand function-word durations are affected differently by their frequency and predictability. Content words are shorter when more frequent, and shorter when repeated, while function w...

Predictability effects on durations of content and function words in conversational English

In a regression study of conversational speech, we show that frequency, contextual predictability, and repetition have separate contributions to word duration, despite their substantial correlations. We also found that contentand function-word durations are affected differently by their frequency and predictability. Content words are shorter when more frequent, and shorter when repeated, while ...

Durations of words in high and low predictability contexts in Korean non-native English speech

critical period effects in foreign language learning:the influence of maturational state on the acquisition of reading,writing, and grammar in english as a foreign language

since the 1960s the age effects on learning both first and second language have been explored by many linguists and applied linguists (e.g lennerberg, 1967; schachter, 1996; long, 1990) and the existence of critical period for language acquisition was found to be a common ground of all these studies. in spite of some common findings, some issues about the impacts of age on acquiring a second or...

Which Predictability Measures Affect Content Word Durations?

The pronunciation of a word can vary widely, and many factors are known to affect this variation. This paper focuses on the role of predictability on word duration. Previous research has suggested that more frequent words are shorter, as are words which are more predictable from neighboring words. This research has tended to focus only on extremely high frequency function words; previous resear...