How do syllables contribute to the perception of spoken English? Insight from the migration paradigm.

The involvement of syllables in the perception of spoken English has traditionally been regarded as minimal because of ambiguous syllable boundaries and overriding rhythmic segmentation cues. The present experiments test the perceptual separability of syllables and vowels in spoken English using the...

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Publicado en:Language & Speech Vol. 48; no. 2; pp. 223 - 254
Autores principales: Mattys SL, Melhorn JF
Formato: research tables/charts Journal Article
Publicado: Sage Publications Inc. Jun2005
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          Phonology
          Speech Perception
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          Analysis of Variance
          Descriptive Statistics
          Dichotic Listening Tests
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