Probabilistic reduction and mental accumulation in Japanese: Frequency, contextual predictability, and average predictability

A large number of studies have demonstrated that a linguistic unit with higher frequency and contextual predictability are realized reduced speech signals. This effect is known in previous literature as probabilistic reduction. few also demonstrate these effects may be memorized; is, average influence phonetic redundancy study aims to investigate the extent which reduction extend morpheme duration Japanese. It production Japanese influenced by frequency, predictability, predictability. These findings interpreted mean signals ease lexical access or they modified maximize communicative ease, productions accumulated mind speaker.