Homophone duration in spontaneous speech: A mixed-effects model
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چکیده
A recent analysis of a corpus of spontaneous speech (Gahl, 2008) showed that homophone pairs differed in duration as a function of word frequency. For example, the high-frequency word time was shorter on average than its less-frequent homophone twin thyme. This effect persisted when other factors affecting word duration were statistically controlled for in a linear regression model. However, that model had several serious limitations. The goal of the current study is to overcome these limitations and to explore the determinants of word duration further.
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