A Processing-Centered Look at the Contribution of Givenness to Durational Reduction

Autor/inn/en	Kahn, Jason M.; Arnold, Jennifer E.
Titel	A Processing-Centered Look at the Contribution of Givenness to Durational Reduction
Quelle	In: Journal of Memory and Language, 67 (2012) 3, S.311-325 (15 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0749-596X
DOI	10.1016/j.jml.2012.07.002
Schlagwörter	Linguistics; Speech Communication; Nouns; Language Processing; Acoustics; Pronunciation; Task Analysis; Control Groups; Prediction + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Linguistik; Sprachverarbeitung; Akustik; Aussprache; Aufgabenanalyse; Vorhersage
Abstract	Givenness tends to lead to acoustic reduction in speech, but little is known about whether linguistic and non-linguistic givenness affect reduction similarly, and there is little consensus about the underlying psychological mechanisms. We examined speakers' pronunciations of target object nouns in an instruction-giving task, where speakers saw objects move and described this to a listener. The target objects were linguistically or non-linguistically given (i.e. spoken aloud or flashed). With predictability held constant, linguistic givenness resulted in more reduction than non-linguistic givenness, while both elicited more reduction than control conditions. We use these findings to consider two possible mechanisms for givenness effects: an explicit information status-based trigger account and a facilitation-based account. We propose that our findings are most naturally accounted for by a mechanism in which givenness leads to facilitation of representations and processes in the production system, which leads to reduction. (Contains 5 tables and 3 figures.) (As Provided).
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