Learners acquire reduced word forms just like they acquire full forms: from exposure.

We investigated the effect of auditory exposure on the recognition of full (i.e., canonical) and reduced (i.e., with weakened or deleted sounds) word forms by beginner second language (L2) learners. We taught three participant groups the same French schwa words. One group was trained only on the full (i.e., with schwa; FulExposed group) forms, one group on the reduced forms (i.e., without schwa; RedExposed group) only, and one group on both the full and reduced forms of each word (the BothExposed group). We then tested participants’ recognition of both forms in an auditory lexical decision task. The participants level of French was tested using the LexTALE test. The materials (audio files, pictures, Python scripts) to run the training , the French LexTALE, and the lexical decision task are to be found under MATERIALS. RAW DATA contains the raw output files. DATA is the data we used for our statistical analyses. All data files are accompanied by a word document named 'variables' which explains the names of the variables and their type.