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Language-universal constraints on speech segmentation
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Two word-spotting experiments are reported that examine whether the Possible-Word Constraint (PWC) is a language-specific or language-universal strategy for the segmentation of continuous speech. The PWC disfavours parses which leave an impossible residue between the end of a candidate word and any likely location of a word boundary, as cued in the speech signal. The experiments examined cases where the residue was either a CVC syllable with a schwa, or a CV syllable with a lax vowel. Although neither of these syllable contexts is a possible lexical word in English, word-spotting in both contexts was easier than in a context consisting of a single consonant. Two control lexical-decision experiments showed that the word-spotting results reflected the relative segmentation difficulty of the words in different contexts. The PWC appears to be language-universal rather than language-specific.
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200499 - Linguistics not elsewhere classified; cognitive psychology; language; language and linguistics; neuropsychology; speech disorders; speech perception
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URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/01690960143000119 http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/34536
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Voornaam is not (really) a homophone : lexical prosody and lexical access in Dutch
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