Phonological reduction and intelligibility in task-oriented dialogue

This thesis explores the implications of Lindblom's theory of Hyper- and Hypo-articulation (Lindblom, 1983, 1990) for word intelligibility and the likely application of phonological reduction processes in spontaneous discourse, using data from the HCRC Map Task Corpus. Lindblom claims that vari...

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Main Author: Sotillo, Catherine Frances
Published: University of Edinburgh 1997
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.662284