French Speakers Prefer Prosody Over Statistics to Segment Speech.
To segment words in unfamiliar speech, listeners are known to exploit both native prosodic cues and statistical cues available in the speech signal. However, how and when these cues are combined remains a matter of debate. Here, we studied how transitional probabilities (TPs) and prosodic phrasal bo...
| Publicado en: | Language & Speech Vol. 69; no. 3; pp. 708 - 726 |
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Sage Publications Inc.
Sep2026
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