POSTVOCALIC /r/-DELETION IN DUTCH: MORE EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE
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In this study we investigate three properties of the left vowel context which we hypothesize to underlie deletion of /r/ in postvocalic, preconsonantal position in Dutch spontaneous speech: vowel type (schwa, full vowel), vowel length (long, short) and lexical stress (+,-). For each of five categories 90 instances with possible /r/-realizations were extracted from a large speech database containing man-machine dialogues in an automatic train-table inquiry system. The frequency of /r/-deletions in these 450 cases was investigated on the basis o f variant selection by a CSR and human transcriptions o f the same material. Loglinear analyses revealed that /r/-deletion was significantly more frequent after schwa than after full vowels, and that vowel length and lexical stress were not significant. This appeared from both CSR data and human transcriptions. The only discrepancy between the two sets o f results concerns the absolute frequencies of /r/-deletion. Possible explanations are discussed.
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