Reduction Examples

Mako Example

tʰu-kʷ-ohɨ̃banɨma
3pl-eat-futpurpose
‘(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

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Why, what weekend were you guys gonna be there?

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weekend

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

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yesterday

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

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we’re (s15_335)

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

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“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.

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careful_we_were_supposed_to_see_it_yesterday.jpg