Cognate status modulates the comprehension of isolated reduced forms

There are competing theories about the representation of reduced variants of words in the mental lexicon. At the same time, speech reduction is known to cause problems for non-natives' speech comprehension. We investigate whether processing of full and reduced forms of cognates can help to better understand how reduced forms are represented in the mental lexicon. In an English auditory lexical decision task during which the brain response (EEG)...