CORDERO RULL , Maria Del Mar

Despite the lack of clear word boundaries in spoken language, the human ability to recognize speech seems to be effortless. Listeners divide continuous speech into linguistically and psychologically significant units to access meaning. Speech segmentation has been proven to be affected by both the listeners' sensitivity to acoustic cues and...

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his paper evaluates the use of intonational cues during word segmentation in French. Specifically, we aim to examine how the characteristicsof the fundamental frequency (F0)that can be observed at the beginning of wordsinfluence theirprocessing. Native speakers of French were presented with phonemically identical ...