English Listeners’ Use of Distributional and Acoustic-Phonetic Cues to Liaison in French: Evidence from Eye Movements.
This study investigates English listeners’ use of distributional and acoustic-phonetic cues to liaison in French. Liaison creates a misalignment of the syllable and word boundaries, but is signaled by distributional cues (/z/ is a frequent liaison but not a frequent word onset; /t/ is a frequent wor...
| Publicado en: | Language & Speech Vol. 57; no. 3; pp. 310 - 338 |
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| Formato: | research tables/charts Journal Article |
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Sage Publications Inc.
2014 Sep
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