Not just frequency, not just modality : Production and perception of English semi-modals
(2020) In Studies in Language Companion Series 216. p.79-108- Abstract
- We review reduction and contraction in modalizing expressions of the type V-to- Vinf from the perspective of production, perception and mental representation.
A corpus study of spoken American English shows reduction/contraction as
a continuous process which is subject to phonological and communicative constraints. Generally, reduction (articulatory ease) is restricted by a tendency
to retain cues to morphological structure (explicitness). For perception, a word-recognition experiment shows that listeners use probabilities to cope with reduction; reduction also promotes ‘chunking’, i.e. accessing frequent sequences as single units. The combined evidence suggests that ‘chunking’, reduction and contraction are not a... (More) - We review reduction and contraction in modalizing expressions of the type V-to- Vinf from the perspective of production, perception and mental representation.
A corpus study of spoken American English shows reduction/contraction as
a continuous process which is subject to phonological and communicative constraints. Generally, reduction (articulatory ease) is restricted by a tendency
to retain cues to morphological structure (explicitness). For perception, a word-recognition experiment shows that listeners use probabilities to cope with reduction; reduction also promotes ‘chunking’, i.e. accessing frequent sequences as single units. The combined evidence suggests that ‘chunking’, reduction and contraction are not a self-propelled process, even given high frequency or semantic bleaching. Rather, they are subject to intuitive negotiations in speaker- hearer interaction. Methodologically, we make a case for triangulating corpus and experimental data. (Less)
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- Lorenz, David LU and Tizon-Couto, David
- publishing date
- 2020-11-12
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- Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding
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- published
- subject
- host publication
- Re-Assessing Modalising Expressions : Categories, co-text, and context - Categories, co-text, and context
- series title
- Studies in Language Companion Series
- editor
- Hohaus, Pascal and Schulze, Reiner
- volume
- 216
- pages
- 30 pages
- publisher
- John Benjamins Publishing Company
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- scopus:85102960167
- ISSN
- 0165-7763
- ISBN
- 9789027260529
- 9789027207913
- DOI
- 10.1075/slcs.216.04lor
- language
- English
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