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| | Forms of English Function Words - Effects of Disfluencies, Turn Position, Age and Sex, and Predictability - Bell, Jurafsky, Fosler-Lussier, Girand, Gildea (ResearchIndex) |
 | | The Role of the Lemma in Form Variation - Jurafsky, Bell, Girand (2000) |
 | | Abstract: This study examines the role of several non--phonetic factors in the reduction of ten frequent English function words (I, and, the, that, a, you, to, of, it, and in) in the phoneticallytranscribed portion of the Switchboard corpus of spontaneous telephone conversations. |
 | | ...was the reduction or lenition of the word s pronunciation in conversational speech. |
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