形态学状态调节音段删除对理解的影响

Abstract Although recent studies have shown that morphological status affects the pronunciation of segments, very little is known about how this pronunciation variation affects comprehension. We investigated how [n] deletion affected the comprehension of Dutch verbs in which -/ən/ either formed the plural suffix or was part of the verb stem in the singular form. An auditory lexical decision experiment revealed that listeners responded slower to pronunciations variants in which [n] was deleted but only when they heard a singular verb. Additionally, for certain singular verbs, we found that [n]