@Article{Cutler1987,
  author   = {Anne Cutler and David M. Carter},
  journal  = {Computer Speech \& Language},
  title    = {The predominance of strong initial syllables in the English vocabulary},
  year     = {1987},
  issn     = {0885-2308},
  number   = {3--4},
  pages    = {133 - 142},
  volume   = {2},
  abstract = {Studies of human speech processing have provided evidece for a segmentation
	strategy in the perception of continuous speech, whereby a word boundary
	is postulated, and a lexical access procedure initiated, at each
	metrically strong syllable. The likely success of this strategy was
	here estimated against the characteristics of the English vocabulary.
	Two computerized dictionaries were found to list approximately three
	times as many words beginning with strong syllables (i.e. syllables
	containing a full vowel) as beginning with weak syllables (i.e. syllables
	containing a reduced vowel). Consideration of frequency of lexical
	word occurrence reveals that words beginning with strong syllables
	occur on average more often than words beginning with weak syllables.
	Together, these findings motivate an estimate for everyday speech
	recognition that approximately 85% of lexical words (i.e. excluding
	function words) will begin with strong syllables. This estimate was
	tested against a corpus of 190 000 words of spontaneous British English
	conversion. In this corpus, 90% of lexical words were found to begin
	with strong syllables. This suggests that a strategy of postulating
	word boundaries at the onset of strong syllables would have a high
	success rate in that few actual lexical word onsets would be missed.},
  doi      = {10.1016/0885-2308(87)90004-0},
}

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