Reduction Examples – Northern Arizona Speech Communication Laboratory

Mako Example

tʰu-kʷ-o	hɨ̃banɨma
3pl-eat-fut	purpose
‘(in order for people) to eat’	(AB015:8)

Rosés Labrada, J. (2015). The Mako language: Vitality, Grammar and Classification. Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository. https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/etd/2851

Reduced production

Unreduced production

Catalan Example

Unreduced: [pəɾɔkeiβɔɫzana]

Reduced: [pəɾɔkiβɔɫsna]

Estonian Example

mõttes [mts]

ka ju see vastuolu selles mõttes nagu

English Examples

Why, what weekend were you guys gonna be there?

weekend

We were supposed to see it yesterday, but I felt really bad….

yesterday

I don’t even know what we’re gonna do (s15_335)

we’re (s15_335)

treaty (reduction vs. clarity variability even in isolated word-list reading, see next “status”)

“status” (reduction in isolated wordlist reading)

Below on the top is an example of a statement taken from a spontaneous conversation. On the bottom is the same sequence produced by a different speaker to illustrate what it would look like as carefully produced speech. Both examples are matched for duration.