@article {47, title = {Reduction of word final /st/-clusters in monosyllabic and compound nouns in Dutch dialects}, year = {2014}, publisher = {Nederlandse Vereniging voor Fonetische Wetenschappen}, address = {Utrecht, The Netherlands}, abstract = {

The main research question of this article was whether different reduced word forms are stored in the mental lexicon of the speaker. This was answered by means of a production experiment where participants coming from Roosendaal and Ede had to read phrases that were presented to them. These phrases contained two nouns, the first ending in the cluster /st/ and the second beginning with a consonant.

Reduced word forms were measured and results show that the effect of dialect were strongly significant with regard to the pronunciation of /s/ (F(1, 1022) = 78.399; p \< .001) and /t/ (F(1, 1022) = 736.293; p \< .001). Specifically, people speaking the dialect of Ede pronounced /t/ in such a way that it added up to a total of 5\% of the total word while this was 16\% for the people of Roosendaal.

The final experiment contained a lexical decision task and it showed that people from Ede were a lot less accurate when compared to speakers of Roosendaal (41.66\% less accurate, to be exact). This means that people from Ede often perceived reduced words as words. We propose a hybrid-model of word recognition.

}, author = {Wouter Broos} }