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Peer reviewedEgido, Carmen; Cooper, William E. – Journal of Phonetics, 1980
Experiments were conducted to examine the influence of syntactic boundaries on the operation of a phonological rule in speech production. Results indicate that traditional metrics of boundary strength, as well as linguistic formulations of phonological rules, must be elaborated to recognize the special status of clause boundaries and deletion…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Language Research, Phonetics, Phonology
Peer reviewedCooper, William E.; And Others – Cognitive Psychology, 1978
The analysis of syllable and pause durations in speech production can provide information about the properties of a speaker's grammatical code. Seven experiments analyzed syllable and pause durations in structurally ambiguous sentences. Results showed that a single hierarchial principle provided a unified account of speech timing effects for…
Descriptors: Grammar, Higher Education, Language Research, Language Rhythm
