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An intonational cue to word segmentation in phonemically identical sequences.
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Attention, Perception & Psychophysics . Apr2010, Vol. 72 Issue 3, p775-787. 13p. - Publication Year :
- 2010
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Abstract
- We investigated the use of language-specific intonational cues to word segmentation in French. Participants listened to phonemically identical sequences such as /selafij/, C'est la fiche/l'affiche 'It's the sheet/poster.' We modified the f0 of the first vowel /a/ of the natural consonant-initial production la fiche, so that it was equal to that of the natural vowel-initial production l'affiche (resynth-consonant-equal condition), higher (resynthconsonant-higher condition), or lower (resynth-consonant-lower condition). In a two-alternative forced choice task (Experiment 1), increasing the f 0 in the /a/ of la fiche increased the percentage of vowel-initial ( affiche) responses. In Experiment 2, participants made visual lexical decisions to vowel-initial targets ( affiche) following both the natural consonant-initial production ( la fiche) and the resynth-consonant-equal version. Facilitation was found only for the resynth-consonant-equal condition, suggesting that raising the f 0 allowed online activation of vowel-initial targets. The recognition system seems to exploit intonational information to guide segmentation toward the beginning of content words. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 19433921
- Volume :
- 72
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Attention, Perception & Psychophysics
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 62291133
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.3758/APP.72.3.775