Rhythmic cues to speech segmentation: Evidence from juncture misperception. Cutler, A. & Butterfield, S. J Mem Lang, 31(2):218–236, 1992. abstract bibtex Segmentation of continuous speech into its component words is a nontrivial task for listeners. Previous work has suggested that listeners develop heuristic segmentation procedures based on experience with the structure of their language; for English, the heuristic is that strong syllables (containing full vowels) are most likely to be the initial syllables of lexical words, whereas weak syllables (containing central, or reduced, vowels) are nonword-initial, or, if word-initial, are grammatical words. This hypothesis is here tested against natural and laboratory-induced missegmentations of continuous speech. Precisely the expected pattern is found: listeners erroneously insert boundaries before strong syllables but delete them before weak syllables; boundaries inserted before strong syllables produce lexical words, while boundaries inserted before weak syllables produce grammatical words.
@Article{Cutler1992,
author = {Cutler, Anne and Butterfield, Sally},
journal = {J Mem Lang},
title = {Rhythmic cues to speech segmentation: Evidence from juncture misperception},
year = {1992},
number = {2},
pages = {218--236},
volume = {31},
abstract = {Segmentation of continuous speech into its component words is a nontrivial
task for listeners. Previous work has suggested that listeners develop
heuristic segmentation procedures based on experience with the structure
of their language; for English, the heuristic is that strong syllables
(containing full vowels) are most likely to be the initial syllables
of lexical words, whereas weak syllables (containing central, or
reduced, vowels) are nonword-initial, or, if word-initial, are grammatical
words. This hypothesis is here tested against natural and laboratory-induced
missegmentations of continuous speech. Precisely the expected pattern
is found: listeners erroneously insert boundaries before strong syllables
but delete them before weak syllables; boundaries inserted before
strong syllables produce lexical words, while boundaries inserted
before weak syllables produce grammatical words.},
}
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