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On identifying syllable boundaries

Speech Communication, 1983
The interposition of a constant between vowels has been shown to affect systematically the formant frequencies of those vowels. The nature of these effects appears to depend on the extent to which the vowels and consonants share the tongue and lips as articulators. Traditional articulatory descriptions suggest two alternatives concerning the status of [
Lawrence J Raphaël
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On Consonants and Syllable Boundaries

1984
Arthur Bronstein, in his book The Pronounciation of American English (1960), follows the convention of dividing the sounds of the language into two classes—the consonants and the vowels. Within this rubric, he assigns the glottal stop [?], and the glottal fricative [h] to the consonant class, as other textbook authors do.
Fredericka Bell-Berti, Katherine S Harris   +1 more
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Morpheme Boundaries and Syllable Boundaries: A Case for Natural Phonology

1980
In generative phonology, syntactic considerations have traditionally played a considerable role in the formulation of phonological rules at the level of the word. Somewhat paradoxically, this tradition has obscured rather than clarified the issue of the relationship between phonology and morphology. A case in point is the way boundary symbols have been
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Syllable Onset Intervals as an Indicator of Discourse and Syntactic Boundaries in Taiwan Mandarin

Language and Speech, 2004
This study looks at the syllable onset interval (SOI) patterning in Taiwan Mandarin spontaneous speech and its relationship to discourse and syntactic units. Monologs were elicited by asking readers to tell stories depicted in comic strips and were transcribed and segmented into Discourse Segment Units (Grosz & Sidner, 1986), clauses, and phrases ...
Janice Fon
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Data-driven approaches for automatic detection of syllable boundaries

Interspeech 2004, 2004
Syllabification is an essential component of many speech and language processing systems. The development of automatic speech recognizers frequently requires working with subword units such as syllables. More importantly, syllabification is an inevitable part of speech synthesis system.
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Is syllable segmentation developmentally constrained by consonant sonority within syllable boundaries in silent reading? Evidence in French children

Journal of Research in Reading, 2015
International audienceThere is agreement that French typically reading children use syllable‐sized units to segment words. Although the statistical properties of the initial syllables or the clusters within syllable boundaries seem to be crucial for ...
Jean Ecalle, Annie Magnan
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Syllable boundaries and stress in speech segmentation

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 1985
When a word is embedded in a nonsense matrix such that it belongs to two syllables of the matrix, detection of the word is inhibited when the second syllable is full but not when it is reduced: Thus melt is detected significantly faster in [mɛltə∫] than in [mɛltajv]. The effect is not determined by matrix or syllable length or by implicit morphological
Anne Cutler, Dennis Norris
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Syllable-Boundary Phenomena in Korean

Korean Studies, 1977
Even a linguistically naive speaker can identify how many syllables there are in a given string, but linguists have not succeeded in determining a simple phonetic correlate that will identify a syllable and boundaries between syllables. It is probably for this reason that the syllable has often been considered quite unimportant, especially by such ...
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The syllable boundary in generative phonology

Canadian Journal of Linguistics/Revue canadienne de linguistique, 1979
In Natural Generative Phonology (NGP), the only phonological rules are those which describe alternations that take place in environments that can be specified in purely phonetic terms. As indicated by Hooper, these “‘phonetic terms’ refer to phonological features (that have intrinsic phonetic content) and phonological boundaries (that have a necessary ...
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Tagging syllable boundaries with joint n-gram models

Interspeech 2007, 2007
This paper presents a statistical method for the segmentation of words into syllables which is based on a joint n-gram model. Our system assigns syllable boundaries to phonetically transcribed words. The syllabification task was formulated as a tagging task. The syllable tagger was trained on syllableannotated phone sequences.
Helmut Schmid, Bernd Möbius, Julia Weidenkaff   +2 more
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