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Effects of syllable boundaries in Tibetan reading [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2023 Interword spaces exist in the texts of many languages that use alphabetic writing systems. In most cases, interword spaces, as a kind of word boundary information, play an important role in the reading process of readers.
Danhui Wang +7 more
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Sensitivity of the inferior frontal gyrus to morphological processing through the detection of category violation [PDF]
Scientific ReportsThe inferior frontal gyrus (IFG) plays a pivotal role in processing morphologically complex words. This study investigated the neural mechanisms underlying morpheme detection during lexical access, utilizing Korean Eojeols—morphologically agglutinated ...
Jeahong Kim, Kichun Nam
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Segmental duration as a cue to syllable boundaries in Czech
Acta Universitatis Carolinae: Philologica, 2017 The aim of the study is to establish whether the acoustic signal contains cues to the syllabification of words that are perceptually relevant, as suggested by previous research.
Pavel Šturm
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Phonotactic Constraints on Tri-Syllabic Loanwords Containing Three-Consonant Sequences: An Optimality Account [PDF]
نشریه پژوهشهای زبانشناسی, 2021 This paper examined the constraints on tri-syllabic loanwords in Persian, which contained three-consonant sequences in the underlying representation, within an optimality-theoretic account.
Hakimeh Fanoodi +2 more
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An exploration into Penultimate and Final Lengthening in Tswana (Southern Bantu)
Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics Plus, 2021 This study investigates the segmental lengthening patterns resulting from prosodic boundaries in Tswana, a Southern Bantu language. The aim is to shed light on the interaction between Penultimate Lengthening and Final Lengthening, providing the first ...
Schubö, Fabian +4 more
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Monitoring syllable boundaries during speech production [PDF]
Brain and Language, 2004 This study investigated the encoding of syllable boundary information during speech production in Dutch. Based on Levelt's model of phonological encoding, we hypothesized segments and syllable boundaries to be encoded in an incremental way. In a self-monitoring experiment, decisions about the syllable affiliation (first or second syllable) of a pre ...
Jansma, B.M., Schiller, N.O.
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Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2022 Bat populations employ rich vocal repertoires for social communication in addition to emitting sound pulses for echolocation. Acoustic parameters of echolocation pulses can vary with the context in which they are emitted, and also with the individual and
Aiqing Lin +4 more
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Syllabification of Standard Lithuanian in terms of the sonority theory
Vilnius University Open Series, 2022 The article discusses the research which aims to ascertain whether the sonority of sounds could be used to determine boundaries of syllables in consonant clusters and if this principle is commonly employed by a sample of language users.
Asta Kazlauskienė
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Universal Restrictions in Reading: What Do French Beginning Readers (Mis)perceive?
Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 Despite the many reports that consider statistical distribution to be vitally important in visual identification tasks in children, some recent studies suggest that children do not always rely on statistical properties to help them locate syllable ...
Norbert Maïonchi-Pino +5 more
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Syllabe Contraction in Spanish dialects and B2 level Hungarian leaners of Spanish
Phonica, 2022 In this study, we analyze the so-called “syllable contraction”, that is, the reduction of a sequence of two identical vowels to the duration of a single sound, across word boundaries.
Dorottya Kovács
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