The effects are not reducible to the frequency of the individual words or substrings. We show that phonetic durations are reduced in higher frequency sequences, regardless of constituency: duration is shorter for sequences within and across syntactic boundaries. We ask (a) if phonetic duration is affected by multi-word frequency in both elicited and spontaneous speech, and (b) if syntactic constituency modulates the effect. In the current paper we investigate the effect of multi-word statistics on phonetic duration using a combination of experimental and corpus-based research. ![]() ![]() ![]() Such findings expand the range of information speakers are sensitive to and call for processing models that can represent larger chains of relations. There is mounting evidence that language users are sensitive to the distributional properties of multi-word sequences.
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