Phonological constraints on the segmentation of continuous speech

In this dissertation, I develop a model of word segmentation in which systematic grammatical knowledge guides division of the speech stream into words. When the speaker's intended syllabification is unambiguously signaled by allophonic variation and phonotactic constraints, this information is...

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Main Author: Kirk, Cecilia Jennifer
Language:ENG
Published: ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst 2001
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Online Access:https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI3027218