The Relative Weight of Statistical and Prosodic Cues in Speech Segmentation: A Matter of Language-(In)dependency and of Signal Quality

In an artificial language setting, we investigated the relative weight of statistical cues (transitional probabilities, TPs) in comparison to two prosodic cues, Intonational Phrases (IPs, a language-independent cue) and lexical stress (a language-dependent cue). The signal quality was also manipulat...

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Main Authors: Tânia Fernandes, Paulo Ventura, Régine Kolinsky
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Open Library of Humanities 2011-06-01
Series:Journal of Portuguese Linguistics
Online Access:http://jpl.letras.ulisboa.pt/articles/102