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Acoustic-phonetic cues to word boundary location: Evidence from word spotting.

Dumay, Nicolas, Content, Alain, Frauenfelder, Uli (1999) Acoustic-phonetic cues to word boundary location: Evidence from word spotting. In: Proceedings of the 14th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. . pp. 281-284. (KAR id:14931)

Abstract

This research examined acoustic-phonetic cues to word boundary location in French consonant clusters, and assessed their use in on-line lexical segmentation. Two word-spotting experiments manipulated the alignment between word targets and syllable boundaries. A perceptual cost of such misalignment was observed for obstruent-liquid clusters but not for /s/ + obstruent clusters. For the former clusters, the analysis of a corpus of utterances showed systematic variations in segment durations as a

function of the lexical assignment of the pivotal consonant. We conclude that the availability of acoustic-phonetic cues to word boundary location in consonant clusters depends upon the cluster class. When available, these cues are exploited in on-line lexical segmentation of speech.

Item Type: Conference or workshop item (Paper)
Subjects: B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology
Q Science > QP Physiology (Living systems)
P Language and Literature > P Philology. Linguistics
Divisions: Divisions > Division of Human and Social Sciences > School of Psychology
Depositing User: N. Dumay
Date Deposited: 12 Jun 2009 13:36 UTC
Last Modified: 16 Nov 2021 09:53 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/14931 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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Dumay, Nicolas.

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