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Frequency distributions of uniphones, diphones, and triphones in spontaneous speech

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Kuperman,  Victor
Pioneer, external;
Decoding Continuous Speech, MPI for Psycholinguistics, Max Planck Society;

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
Pioneer, external;
Decoding Continuous Speech, MPI for Psycholinguistics, Max Planck Society;

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Kuperman, V., Ernestus, M., & Baayen, R. H. (2008). Frequency distributions of uniphones, diphones, and triphones in spontaneous speech. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 124(6), 3897-3908. doi:10.1121/1.3006378.


Cite as: https://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-0013-2085-0
Abstract
This paper explores the relationship between the acoustic duration of phonemic sequences and their frequencies of occurrence. The data were obtained from large (sub)corpora of spontaneous speech in Dutch, English, German, and Italian. Acoustic duration of an n-phone is shown to codetermine the n-phone's frequency of use, such that languages preferentially use diphones and triphones that are neither very long nor very short. The observed distributions are well approximated by a theoretical function that quantifies the concurrent action of the self-regulatory processes of minimization of articulatory effort and minimization of perception effort