Schuppler, B., van Dommelen, W., Koreman, J. & Ernestus, M. (2009) Word-final [t]-deletion: An analysis on the segmental and sub-segmental level. Proceedings of Interspeech 2009, Brighton, U.K., pp.2275-2278
This paper presents a study on the reduction of word-final [t]s in conversational standard Dutch. Based on a large amount of tokens annotated on the segmental level, we show that the bigram frequency and the segmental context are the main predictors for the absence of [t]s. In a second study, we present an analysis of the detailed acoustic properties of word-final [t]s and we show that bigram frequency and context also play a role on the subsegmental level. This paper extends research on the realization of /t/ in spontaneous speech and shows the importance of incorporating sub-segmental properties in models of speech.
