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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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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 ...
Niels O Schiller, Bernadette M Jansma
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Stop epenthesis at syllable boundaries [PDF]
7th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP 2002), 2002 This paper investigates the production and perception of epenthetic stops at syllable boundaries in Dutch and compares the experimental data with lexical statistics for Dutch and English. This extends past work on epenthesis in coda position [1]. The current work is particularly informative regarding the question of phonotactic constraints’ influence ...
Natasha Warner, Andrea Weber
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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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Journal of Phonetics, 1992 Previous work [S. Nittrouer & M. Studdert-Kennedy, Journal of Speech and Hearing Research 30, 319-329 (1987)] demonstrated that young children based phonetic judgments of syllable-initial fricatives on the formant transitions of the following vowel to a greater extent than did older children or adults.
Susan Nittrouer
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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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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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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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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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