Phonetics and Phonology of Speaking Styles: Reduction and Elaboration in Speech Communication Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain September 30 - October 2, 1991

Some Aspects of Maximally Fast Reading Style

Reinhold Greisbach

Institut für Phonetik, Universität Köln, Cologne, Germany

Some phonetic phenomena of maximally fast reading, i.e. reading as fast as possible, are investigated. A production and a perception experiment (of German texts) was performed and the general speaker and hearer specific problems are discussed. Phonetic transcripts were checked against standard reduction rules of German. More extensive reductions, speaker specific as well as speaker independent, were observed.

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Bibliographic reference.  Greisbach, Reinhold (1991): "Some aspects of maximally fast reading style", In PPoSpSt-1991, paper 028.