Contextual Predictability and Phonetic Reduction

Phonetic reduction is a process which alters the acoustic quality of a sound, often a vowel or word, to a perceived weaker or shorter state. Previous research suggests that the degree of reduction of a word is influenced by the contextual predictability of words in the context. However, the nature o...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Martin, Kinan R.
Other Authors: Levy, Roger
Format: Thesis
Published: Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2024
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/156991