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On the Durational Reduction of Repeated Mentions: Recency and Speaker Effects
Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2008)
Abstract
There are conflicting views in the literature as to the role of listener-adaptive processes in language production in general and articulatory reduction in particular. We present two novel pieces of corpus evidence that corroborate the hypothesis that non-lexical variation of durations is related to the speed of retrieval of stored motor code chunks and durational reduction is the result of facilitatory priming.