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Do listeners recover “deleted” final /t/ in German?

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Title
Do listeners recover “deleted” final /t/ in German?
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Frontiers in Psychology, July 2014
DOI 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00735
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Frank Zimmerer, Henning Reetz

Abstract

Reduction and deletion processes occur regularly in conversational speech. A segment that is affected by such reduction and deletion processes in many Germanic languages (e.g., Dutch, English, German) is /t/. There are similarities concerning the factors that influence the likelihood of final /t/ to get deleted, such as segmental context. However, speakers of different languages differ with respect to the acoustic cues they leave in the speech signal when they delete final /t/. German speakers usually lengthen a preceding /s/ when they delete final /t/. This article investigates to what extent German listeners are able to reconstruct /t/ when they are presented with fragments of words where final /t/ has been deleted. It aims also at investigating whether the strategies that are used by German depend on the length of /s/, and therefore whether listeners are using language-specific cues. Results of a forced-choice segment detection task suggest that listeners are able to reconstruct deleted final /t/ in about 45% of the times. The length of /s/ plays some role in the reconstruction, however, it does not explain the behavior of German listeners completely.

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United States 2 22%
Unknown 7 78%

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Professor 2 22%
Student > Ph. D. Student 2 22%
Researcher 2 22%
Student > Doctoral Student 2 22%
Unknown 1 11%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Linguistics 6 67%
Nursing and Health Professions 1 11%
Psychology 1 11%
Unknown 1 11%
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