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dc.contributor.author | Hanulikova, Adriana | - |
dc.contributor.author | McQueen, James M. | - |
dc.contributor.author | Mitterer, Holger | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-01-04T07:05:17Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2018-01-04T07:05:17Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2010 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Hanulikova, A., McQueen, J. M., & Mitterer, H. (2010). Possible words and fixed stress in the segmentation of Slovak speech. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 63(3), 555-579. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.uri | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar//handle/123456789/25357 | - |
dc.description.abstract | The possible-word constraint (PWC; Norris, McQueen, Cutler, & Butterfield, 1997) has been proposed as a language-universal segmentation principle: Lexical candidates are disfavoured if the resulting segmentation of continuous speech leads to vowelless residues in the input—for example, single consonants. Three word-spotting experiments investigated segmentation in Slovak, a language with single-consonant words and fixed stress. In Experiment 1, Slovak listeners detected real words such as ruka “hand” embedded in prepositional-consonant contexts (e.g., /gruka/) faster than those in nonprepositional-consonant contexts (e.g., /truka/) and slowest in syllable contexts (e.g., /dugruka/). The second experiment controlled for effects of stress. Responses were still fastest in prepositional- consonant contexts, but were now slowest in nonprepositional-consonant contexts. In Experiment 3, the lexical and syllabic status of the contexts was manipulated. Responses were again slowest in nonprepositional-consonant contexts but equally fast in prepositional-consonant, prepositional-vowel, and nonprepositional-vowel contexts. These results suggest that Slovak listeners use fixed stress and the PWC to segment speech, but that single consonants that can be words have a special status in Slovak segmentation. Knowledge about what constitutes a phonologically acceptable word in a given language therefore determines whether vowelless stretches of speech are or are not treated as acceptable parts of the lexical parse. | en_GB |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | Taylor & Francis | en_GB |
dc.rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess | en_GB |
dc.subject | Phonetics | en_GB |
dc.subject | Word recognition | en_GB |
dc.subject | Slovak language | en_GB |
dc.subject | Speech perception | en_GB |
dc.title | Possible words and fixed stress in the segmentation of Slovak speech | en_GB |
dc.type | article | en_GB |
dc.rights.holder | The copyright of this work belongs to the author(s)/publisher. The rights of this work are as defined by the appropriate Copyright Legislation or as modified by any successive legislation. Users may access this work and can make use of the information contained in accordance with the Copyright Legislation provided that the author must be properly acknowledged. Further distribution or reproduction in any format is prohibited without the prior permission of the copyright holder. | en_GB |
dc.description.reviewed | peer-reviewed | en_GB |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1080/17470210903038958 | - |
dc.publication.title | The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology | en_GB |
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