Do listeners recover deleted final /t/ in German?
Reduction and deletion processes occur regularly in conversational speech. A segment that is affected by such reduction and deletion processes in many Germanic languages (e.g., Dutch, English, German) is /t/. There are similarities concerning the factors that influence the likelihood of final /t/ to...
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| description | Reduction and deletion processes occur regularly in conversational speech. A segment that is affected by such reduction and deletion processes in many Germanic languages (e.g., Dutch, English, German) is /t/. There are similarities concerning the factors that influence the likelihood of final /t/ to get deleted, such as segmental context. However, speakers of different languages differ with respect to the acoustic cues they leave in the speech signal when they delete final /t/. German speakers usually lengthen a preceding /s/ when they delete final /t/. This article investigates to what extent German listeners are able to reconstruct /t/ when they are presented with fragments of words where final /t/ has been deleted. It aims also at investigating whether the strategies that are used by German depend on the length of /s/, and therefore whether listeners are using language-specific cues. Results of a forced-choice segment detection task suggest that listeners are able to reconstruct deleted final /t/ in about 45% of the times. The length of /s/ plays some role in the reconstruction, however, it does not explain the behavior of German listeners completely. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-1fff82b9bd2c432fbe3a7e04c0ad4cd32022-12-22T02:24:02ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychology1664-10782014-07-01510.3389/fpsyg.2014.0073583435Do listeners recover deleted final /t/ in German?Frank eZimmerer0Frank eZimmerer1Henning eReetz2Universität des SaarlandesGoethe-UniversityGoethe-UniversityReduction and deletion processes occur regularly in conversational speech. A segment that is affected by such reduction and deletion processes in many Germanic languages (e.g., Dutch, English, German) is /t/. There are similarities concerning the factors that influence the likelihood of final /t/ to get deleted, such as segmental context. However, speakers of different languages differ with respect to the acoustic cues they leave in the speech signal when they delete final /t/. German speakers usually lengthen a preceding /s/ when they delete final /t/. This article investigates to what extent German listeners are able to reconstruct /t/ when they are presented with fragments of words where final /t/ has been deleted. It aims also at investigating whether the strategies that are used by German depend on the length of /s/, and therefore whether listeners are using language-specific cues. Results of a forced-choice segment detection task suggest that listeners are able to reconstruct deleted final /t/ in about 45% of the times. The length of /s/ plays some role in the reconstruction, however, it does not explain the behavior of German listeners completely.http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00735/fullGermansegment reconstructiondeleted tperception of deletionnatural speech processes |
| spellingShingle | Frank eZimmerer Frank eZimmerer Henning eReetz Do listeners recover deleted final /t/ in German? Frontiers in Psychology German segment reconstruction deleted t perception of deletion natural speech processes |
| title | Do listeners recover deleted final /t/ in German? |
| title_full | Do listeners recover deleted final /t/ in German? |
| title_fullStr | Do listeners recover deleted final /t/ in German? |
| title_full_unstemmed | Do listeners recover deleted final /t/ in German? |
| title_short | Do listeners recover deleted final /t/ in German? |
| title_sort | do listeners recover deleted final t in german |
| topic | German segment reconstruction deleted t perception of deletion natural speech processes |
| url | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00735/full |
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