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- Repetition of words makes them shorter when spoken.
- Researchers have looked into various theories to explain this, including how speakers design their speech for their audience and internal mechanisms for producing words.
- A study tested the idea that speakers need to hear a word to produce it shorter next time, using methods that limited their ability to hear themselves, yet still found that word duration reduction happened regardless of the feedback limitations.
- This indicates that other types of feedback, like physical sensations while speaking, may also play a role in how repetition affects speech duration.
Article Abstract
Repetition reduces word duration. Explanations of this process have appealed to audience design, internal production mechanisms, and combinations thereof (e.g. Kahn & Arnold, 2015). Jacobs, Yiu, Watson, and Dell (2015) proposed the auditory feedback hypothesis, which states that speakers must hear a word, produced either by themselves or another speaker, in order for duration reduction on a subsequent production. We conducted a strong test of the auditory feedback hypothesis in two experiments, in which we used masked auditory feedback and whispering to prevent speakers from hearing themselves fully. Both experiments showed that despite limiting the sources of normal auditory feedback, repetition reduction was observed to equal extents in masked and unmasked conditions, suggesting that repetition reduction may be supported by multiple sources, such as somatosensory feedback and feedforward signals, depending on their availability.
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| http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9390968 | PMC |
| http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2019.1693051 | DOI Listing |
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