Acoustic Cues to Speech Segmentation in Spoken French: Native and Nonnative Strategies

In spoken French, the phonological processes of liaison and resyllabification can render word and syllable boundaries ambiguous. In the case of liaison, for example, the final /n/ of the masculine indefinite article un [œ̃] is latent in isolation or before word beginning with a consonant (un stylo [...

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Main Author: Shoemaker, Ellenor
Language:English
Published: 2009
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Online Access:http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00676964
http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/docs/00/67/69/64/PDF/DISS_SHOEMAKER.pdf