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How Do Syllables Contribute to the Perception of Spoken English? Insight from the Migration Paradigm
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Direct linkMattys, Sven L.; Melhorn, James F. – Language and Speech, 2005
The involvement of syllables in the perception of spoken English has traditionally been regarded as minimal because of ambiguous syllable boundaries and overriding rhythmic segmentation cues. The present experiments test the perceptual separability of syllables and vowels in spoken English using the migration paradigm. Experiments 1 and 2 show…
Descriptors: Syllables, Vowels, Phonemes, Perception
