Abstract
Segmental duration as a cue to syllable boundaries in Czech
Highlights
The phonetic segment, or speech sound, is the smallest recurring linear segment in speech, the processes of human production and perception normally operate at a higher level, namely, the level of words or syllables (Sendlmeier, 1995; Coleman, 2002; Goldinger & Azuma, 2003; Port, 2007)
The preference was to divide the intervocalic clusters between two syllables (79%), followed by V.CC syllabifications (20%) and CC.V syllabifications (1%, n = 15)
Given its speaker specificity and low occurrence, this category was excluded from the results, leaving 1172 tokens for analysis using logistic regression with a binary response variable
Summary
Speech sound, is the smallest recurring linear segment in speech, the processes of human production and perception normally operate at a higher level, namely, the level of words or syllables (Sendlmeier, 1995; Coleman, 2002; Goldinger & Azuma, 2003; Port, 2007). There is mounting evidence that whole stretches of speech are stored as sound-sense associations in memory, which are recovered in the processing of speech (Coleman, 2002; Goldinger & Azuma, 2003; Hawkins, 2003). This complements the well-known fact that acoustic cues to individual segments are distributed over adjoining segments as well. Syllable boundaries can be effectively viewed as predictable from underlying representations of segments (e.g., Ewen & van der Hulst, 2001: 141ff.)
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