Linguistic Constraints on Statistical Computations: The Role of Consonants and Vowels in Continuous Speech Processing.

A study was conducted to test whether vowels and consonants in words carry different kinds of information, the latter being more tied to word identification and the former to grammar. Data were obtained from French college students who participated in three experiments that sought to discover wheth...

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Publicado en:Psychological Science. Vol. 16; no. 6; pp. 451 - 460
Autores principales: Bonatti, Luca L., Peña, Marcela, Nespor, Marina
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Publicado: HWW Temp June 2005
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Sumario:A study was conducted to test whether vowels and consonants in words carry different kinds of information, the latter being more tied to word identification and the former to grammar. Data were obtained from French college students who participated in three experiments that sought to discover whether learners would track transitional probabilities among consonants but not among vowels. Findings revealed a preferential role for consonants in word identification.