Research report 2004 - Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
How the postman gets to be the “posman“ and then the postman again
Authors
Holger Mitterer
Departments
Sprachverstehen (Prof. Dr. Anne Cutler)
MPI für Psycholinguistik, Nijmegen
Summary
An investigation was conducted into how listeners compensate for deletion of word-final /t/, which may occur in fluent casual speech (‘postman’ becomes “posman”). Behavioral as well as brain-activity measures show that listeners compensate perceptually for /t/-deletion using phonological as well as world knowledge.