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Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2018, 2018
Many people share the experience of talking over noise with other on highly predictable content. ... more Many people share the experience of talking over noise with other on highly predictable content. There has been extensive research on predictability effects and speech in noise, but little is known about the relative strength of noise and predictability factors with respect to phonetic reduction. The current study attempts to fill this gap by examining the effects of noise, lexical frequency, repetition and word class, on the duration, mean intensity and mean F0 of vowels in speakers' L1 Mandarin and L2 English. Our results support the idea that multiple sources contribute to phonetic reduction: effects of predictability factors such as lexical frequency and word class may be dependent on language experience while the Lombard reflex is more automatic and language-independent.
Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2018, 2018
Many people share the experience of talking over noise with other on highly predictable content. ... more Many people share the experience of talking over noise with other on highly predictable content. There has been extensive research on predictability effects and speech in noise, but little is known about the relative strength of noise and predictability factors with respect to phonetic reduction. The current study attempts to fill this gap by examining the effects of noise, lexical frequency, repetition and word class, on the duration, mean intensity and mean F0 of vowels in speakers' L1 Mandarin and L2 English. Our results support the idea that multiple sources contribute to phonetic reduction: effects of predictability factors such as lexical frequency and word class may be dependent on language experience while the Lombard reflex is more automatic and language-independent.