Research has claimed that the phonetic realization of word duration in homophone pairs, such as time and thyme, systematically differs based on their lexical characteristics, including part of speech, frequency, and orthographic consistency. This …
The present work examines the cross-linguistic effects of speech style and phonetic reduction. Specifically, we focus on the durational variability of vowels and consonants in spontaneous and read speech in English and Japanese. Data were extracted …