Mako Example
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tʰu-kʷ-o | hɨ̃banɨma |
3pl-eat-fut | purpose |
‘(in order for people) to eat’ | (AB015:8) |
Catalan Example
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![](http://aphl.artsrn.ualberta.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Catalan_reduced.png)
Estonian Example
![](http://aphl.artsrn.ualberta.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/motildettes_iso-1.png)
![](http://aphl.artsrn.ualberta.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/motildettes_con.png)
English Examples
![reduction](http://aphl.artsrn.ualberta.ca/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/r1-300x110.jpg)
Why, what weekend were you guys gonna be there?
![reduction](http://aphl.artsrn.ualberta.ca/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/r2.jpg)
weekend
![reduction](http://aphl.artsrn.ualberta.ca/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/r3.jpg)
We were supposed to see it yesterday, but I felt really bad….
![reduction](http://aphl.artsrn.ualberta.ca/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/r4.jpg)
yesterday
![reduction](http://aphl.artsrn.ualberta.ca/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/r5.jpg)
I don’t even know what we’re gonna do (s15_335)
![reduction](http://aphl.artsrn.ualberta.ca/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/r6.jpg)
we’re (s15_335)
![reduction](http://aphl.artsrn.ualberta.ca/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/r7.jpg)
treaty (reduction vs. clarity variability even in isolated word-list reading, see next “status”)
![reduction](http://aphl.artsrn.ualberta.ca/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/r8.jpg)
“status” (reduction in isolated wordlist reading)
Below on the top is an example of a statement taken from a spontaneous conversation. On the bottom is the same sequence produced by a different speaker to illustrate what it would look like as carefully produced speech. Both examples are matched for duration.
![we_were_supposed_to_see_it_yesterday_silence.jpg we_were_supposed_to_see_it_yesterday_silence.jpg](http://aphl.artsrn.ualberta.ca/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/we_were_supposed_to_see_it_yesterday_silence.jpg)
![careful_we_were_supposed_to_see_it_yesterday.jpg careful_we_were_supposed_to_see_it_yesterday.jpg](http://aphl.artsrn.ualberta.ca/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/careful_we_were_supposed_to_see_it_yesterday.jpg)