Casual speech is difficult to study experimentally because participants do not naturally produce casual speech in a laboratory setting and only expect it in certain contexts. The talk discusses several experimental paradigms that have been used or proposed to study casual speech production and comprehension, highlighting both their successes and limitations.

1. Mirjam Ernestus
The production and comprehension of casual speech
Most research into the production and comprehension of casual speech focuses on well articulated
speech, and all existing experimental paradigms are originally designed for investigating this speech
register.Investigating casual speech is much more difficult since participants typically do not
produce casual speech in the laboratory and since they only expect casual speech in the right
context. In this talk, I will discuss the successes and failures of several (new) experimental
paradigms for the investigation of casual speech.