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Newly derived morphologically complex words have played a prominent role in research on morphological productivity and lexical innovation (e.g. Baayen 1989, 1996; Plag 1999; Mühleisen 2010). Most of the attention concerning the properties of such words has been devoted to their phonological, morphological, semantic and syntactic properties (see, for example, Bauer et al. 2013 for such analyses). This paper takes a look at the phonetic properties of affixed words, testing Hay’s (2003) ‘segmentability hypothesis’, according to which newly derived words are expected to show less phonetic integration, hence less phonetic reduction, of the affix involved than established forms. This hypothesis is based on the idea that morphological segmentability negatively correlates with phonological integration. To date there is only one study that clearly confirmed the segmentability hypothesis (i.e. Hay 2007), while other studies have failed to replicate the effect (see Hanique and Ernestus 2012 for an overview). The present study investigates the issue with data from the Switchboard corpus for five affixes of English: un-, locative in-, negative in-, disand adverbial -ly. Using different measures of morphological segmentability, we demonstrate that the durations of the two prefixes unand dis(unlike the durations of inand -ly) largely support the segmentability hypothesis. With unand disprefixed words, prefixes that are more easily segmentable have longer durations. * || * The authors wish to thank the editors and the reviewers for their constructive feedback on an earlier version. We are also grateful for comments to the members of the DFG Research Unit FOR2373 and to the audiences at the Workshop on Expanding the Lexicon, Trier, 17–18 November 2016 and at the Old World Conference on Phonology, Düsseldorf, 20–22 February 2017. The usual disclaimers apply. This research was partially funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgmeinschaft (Research Unit FOR2373 ‘Spoken Morphology’, Projects PL 151/7–1 and PL 151/8–1) and the Strategischer Forschungsfonds der Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, which we grate-

The phonetics of newly derived words: Testing the effect of morphological segmentability on affix duration