Pluymaekers et al. (2005) studied the acoustic durations of affixes in derived Dutch words. The data for the prefix ge- are available in the data set durations Ge. The Duration Of Prefix is the dependent variable, Frequency is the key predictor:
The general question of interest is whether the frequency with which a word is used codetermines the durations of its constituent morphemes. Is the same morpheme, here ge-, shorter in higher-frequency words? Address this question by means of a regression model. Keep in mind that you should carefully check whether the distributions of the predictors are roughly symmetrical and take appropriate measures if not so before fitting the model to the data.
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