The present study shows that [t] consonants are affected by probabilistic factors in a syllable-timed language as French, and in spontaneous as well as in journalistic speech. Study 1 showed a word bigram frequency effect in spontaneous French, but its exact nature depended on the corpus on which the probabilistic measures were based. Study 2 investigated journalistic speech and showed an effect of the joint frequency of the test word and its following word. We discuss the possibility that these probabilistic effects are due to the speakers planning of upcoming words, and to the speakers adaptation to the listeners needs.
Cite as: Torreira, F., Ernestus, M. (2009) Probabilistic effects on French [t] duration. Proc. Interspeech 2009, 448-451, doi: 10.21437/Interspeech.2009-160
@inproceedings{torreira09_interspeech,
author={Francisco Torreira and Mirjam Ernestus},
title={{Probabilistic effects on French [t] duration}},
year=2009,
booktitle={Proc. Interspeech 2009},
pages={448--451},
doi={10.21437/Interspeech.2009-160}
}