Unscripted Possibilities

Incremental Phonological Encoding during Unscripted Sentence Production

We investigate phonological encoding during unscripted sentence production, focusing on the effect of phonological overlap on phonological encoding. Previous work on this question has almost exclusively employed isolated word production or highly scripted multi-word production. These studies have led to conflicting results: some studies found that phonological overlap between two words facilita...

Investigating Unscripted Speech: Implications for Phonetics and Phonology

This paper looks at patterns of reduction and elaboration in speech production, taking the phenomenon of plosive-related glottalization in German spontaneous speech, on the basis of the 'Kiel Corpus', as its point of departure, and proposes general principles of human speech to explain them. This is followed by an enquiry into the nature of a production-perception link, based on complementary d...

Possibilities of the Philosophy of History

Actual Possibilities

This is a philosophical ‘position paper’, starting from the observation that we have an intuitive grasp of a family of related concepts of “possibility”, “causation” and “constraint” which we often use in thinking about complex mechanisms, and perhaps also in perceptual processes, which according to Gibson are primarily concerned with detecting positive and negative affordances, such as support...

Using Unscripted Spoken Texts in the Teaching of Second Language Listening

Most spoken texts that are used in second language (L2) listening classroom activities are scripted texts, where the text is written, revised, polished, and then read aloud with artificially clear enunciation and slow rate of speech. This article explores the field’s overreliance on these scripted texts, at the expense of including unscripted spoken texts that have very different textual and ph...