Disambiguating durational cues for speech segmentation

Monaghan, Padraic and White, Laurence and Merkx, Marjolein M (2013) Disambiguating durational cues for speech segmentation. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 134 (1). EL45-51. ISSN 1520-8524

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Abstract

Vowels are lengthened in lexically stressed syllables and also in word-final syllables. Both stress and final-syllable lengthening can assist in word segmentation from continuous speech, but in languages like English, with a preponderance of stress-initial words, lengthening cues may conflict for indicating word boundaries. An analysis of a large corpus of English speech demonstrated that speakers provide distributional information sufficient to potentially allow listeners to determine whether vowel lengthening is associated with lexical stress or word finality without relying on a congruence of multiple suprasegmental cues to make the distinction.

Item Type:
Journal Article
Journal or Publication Title:
Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
Uncontrolled Keywords:
/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/3100/3102
Subjects:
?? word segmentationphrase boundariesacoustics and ultrasonics ??
ID Code:
65913
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Deposited On:
07 Aug 2013 10:30
Refereed?:
Yes
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Published
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15 Jul 2024 14:07