Topics in the Study of the Pragmatic Functions of Phonetic Reduction in Dialog

arXiv:2405.01376v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Reduced articulatory precision is common in speech, but for dialog its acoustic properties and pragmatic functions have been little studied. We here try to remedy this gap. This technical report contains content that was omitted from the journal article (Ward et al. 2024, submitted). Specifically, we here report 1) lessons learned about annotating for perceived reduction, 2) the finding that, unlike in read speech, the correlates of reduction in dialog include high pitch, wide pitch …

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