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[[Lindblom]]'s theory of Hyper and Hypo-articulation claims that [[speaker]]s vary articulatory clarity according to the informational requirements of their listener: speakers hyper-articulate when listeners require maximum acoustic information, and reduce articulatory effort when listeners can supplement the acoustic input with information from other sources (Lindblom, 1990). To prevent speakers from over-economising to a point of unintelligibility, hypo-articulation is governed by a constraint of lexical distinctiveness: speakers hypo-articulate only while listeners are able to distinguish the target from competing lexical items.

=== Link ===

[http://www2.let.uu.nl/UiL-OTS/Lexicon/zoek.pl?lemma=H-and-H+model&lemmacode=1416 Utrecht Lexicon of Linguistics]

=== References ===

* Lindblom, B. 1990. ''Explaining phonetic variation: A sketch of the H &amp; H theory,'' In W. J. Hardcastle &amp; A. Marchal: "Speech Production and, 403-439, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht

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[[Category:Phonetics]]