Phonological representations capture information about individual word forms and about the
general characteristics of word forms in a language. To support the processing of novel word …

Frequent or contextually predictable words are often phonetically reduced, ie shortened and
produced with articulatory undershoot. Explanations for phonetic reduction of predictable …

Abstract Language-users reduce words in predictable contexts. Previous research indicates
that reduction may be stored in lexical representation if a word is often reduced. Because …

The pronunciation of words is highly variable. This variation provides crucial information
about the cognitive architecture of the language production system. This review summarizes …

Spontaneous phonetic imitation—the phenomenon where interacting talkers come to be
more similar-sounding—may be an important mechanism in dialect convergence and …

This article follows a change in pronunciation of word-medial intervocalic/t/in New Zealand
English, as it unfolds over 120 years. Data are analyzed in the context of questions about the …

Speakers can produce utterances with more or less articulatory detail or even completely
omit certain words, while still conveying the same message. Similar reduction exists at …

In the first decades of the 21st century, exemplar theory has fueled an explosion of
theoretical and empirical work in speech production. We review the foundations for this …

Formant frequency estimation and tracking are among the most fundamental problems in
speech processing. In the estimation task, the input is a stationary speech segment such as …

Substantial empirical research has revealed that temporal and spectral phonetic vowel
reduction occurs in “easy” processing contexts relative to “hard” processing contexts …