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Kim, Jeesun; Davis, Chris; Cutler, Anne – Language and Speech, 2008
To segment continuous speech into its component words, listeners make use of language rhythm; because rhythm differs across languages, so do the segmentation procedures which listeners use. For each of stress-, syllable-and mora-based rhythmic structure, perceptual experiments have led to the discovery of corresponding segmentation procedures. In…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Language Rhythm, Syllables, Oral Language
McNeill, David; Lindig, Karen – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1973
Research supported by grants from the National Science Foundation and the Early Education Research Center of the University of Chicago. (DD)
Descriptors: Experiments, Language Research, Listening Skills, Morphology (Languages)
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Avakian-Whitaker, Haiganoosh; Whitaker, Harry A. – Linguistics, 1973
Descriptors: Children, Communication Disorders, Consonants, Error Patterns
Brown, D. L. – 1970
The effects of certain linguistic dimensions on auditory blending performance and training were examined. Dimensions included type of phonological context, consonant-vowel or vowel-consonant (CV or VC); units to be blended, syllables or phonemes (S or P); and size of units, single or double. Six ordered 96-word training blends were administered to…
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Auditory Training, Child Language, Linguistic Performance