Contextual frequency effects in phonetic variation
Kamil Kaźmierski
June 2024, University of Vienna
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Informativity (=average unpredictability)
Predictability: home course vs. home furnishings
Informativity: scrappy vs. tough
Kaźmierski, K. Under review. The role of informativity and frequency in shaping word durations in English and in Polish.
β = 0.025, p < 0.001
β = 0.02, p < 0.001
what I saw
[wʌʔ aɪ sɔː]
Kaźmierski, K. 2020. Prevocalic t-glottaling across word boundaries in Midland American English. Laboratory Phonology 11(1): 13.
Ex. 1: Intervocalic /t/ as a glottal stop
Kaźmierski, K. 2020. Prevocalic t-glottaling across word boundaries in Midland American English. Laboratory Phonology 11(1): 13.
Ex. 2: Intervocalic /t/ as an ‘incomplete’ glottal stop
Kaźmierski, K. 2020. Prevocalic t-glottaling across word boundaries in Midland American English. Laboratory Phonology 11(1): 13.
Kaźmierski, K. 2020. Prevocalic t-glottaling across word boundaries in Midland American English. Laboratory Phonology 11(1): 13.
river, car
[ˈrɪvə, kaː]
I got this kid, used to live right across from my father’s [ˈfaːðəz] gas station. Probably one of the best car [kaː] thieves, you’ve ever [ˈɛvə] known in your [jə] life. He could get in a car [kaː] and steal that car [kaː] faster [ˈfæstə] than you could get in it with your [joə] key. I take him up to Fall River [ˈrɪvə]… And I parked [ˈpaːkt] my car [kaː] in the lot. I said to the kid, “All right cross the street,” I says, “I want a four-door car [foə doə kaː].”
Kaźmierski, K & Urbanek, K. Variability in word-final r-vocalization in Providence. Poster presented at NWAV48, Eugene, Oregon.
Kaźmierski, K & Urbanek, K. Variability in word-final r-vocalization in Providence. Poster presented at NWAV48, Eugene, Oregon.
Implications for speech production
No place for FFC effect in standard models of speech production
Levelt, Willem J. M., Ardi Roelofs, and Antje S. Meyer. 1999. “A Theory of Lexical Access in Speech Production.” Behavioral and Brain Sciences 22, 1–75.
Implications for phonological representations
/wʌt/
Bybee, Joan. 2001. Phonology and language use. Cambridge: CUP.
Researcher degrees of freedom
FFC testable on most (all?) variable word-boundary processes
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