Figure 1. Extreme reduction: "nun wollen wir mal kucken(, ob mit)"; spontaneous speech, speaker OLV (g122a009).

Figure 2. Spectrograms of "(wir) könnten ihn (fragen)." (top) and "(wir) können ihn (fragen)." (bottom); scripted lab speech, male speaker KJK.

Figure 3. Spectrogram of "(Die) können uns (abholen)" ("They can collect us")(top) and of "(Die) könnten uns (abholen)" ("They could collect us")(bottom); read speech, speaker KJK.

Figure 4. Speech waves of original "Die können uns ab(holen)"(top), "Die könnten uns ab(holen)"(bottom), and 4 stimuli derived from "Die können uns ab(holen)" by splicing, with glottalization replacing the 2nd half, the first half the centre, and the total length of the nasal, respectively. Original stimuli as in Figure 3. Stimuli generated for perception experiment.