The comprehension of acoustically reduced morphologically complex words: The 
roles of deletion, duration, and frequency of occurence

Ernestus, Mirjam; Baayen, R. Harald

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The comprehension of acoustically reduced morphologically complex words: The roles of deletion, duration, and frequency of occurence

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Ernestus, Mirjam
Language Comprehension Group, MPI for Psycholinguistics, Max Planck Society;
Center for Language Studies, external;
Decoding Continuous Speech, MPI for Psycholinguistics, Max Planck Society;

Baayen, R. Harald
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Decoding Continuous Speech, MPI for Psycholinguistics, Max Planck Society;

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Ernestus, M., & Baayen, R. H. (2007). The comprehension of acoustically reduced morphologically complex words: The roles of deletion, duration, and frequency of occurence. In J. Trouvain, & W. J. Barry (Eds.), Proceedings of the 16th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhs 2007) (pp. 773-776). Dudweiler: Pirrot.

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This study addresses the roles of segment deletion, durational reduction, and frequency of use in the comprehension of morphologically complex words. We report two auditory lexical decision experiments with reduced and unreduced prefixed Dutch words. We found that segment deletions as such delayed comprehension. Simultaneously, however, longer durations of the different parts of the words appeared to increase lexical competition, either from the word’s stem (Experiment 1) or from the word’s morphological continuation forms (Experiment 2). Increased lexical competition slowed down especially the comprehension of low frequency words, which shows that speakers do not try to meet listeners’ needs when they reduce especially high frequency words.