INTERFERENCE EFFECTS OF POSSIBLE-WORD CONSTRAINTS (PWC) IN CANTONESE SPEECH SEGMENTATION
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The possible-word constraint in Cantonese speech segmentation
Introduction Speech segmentation is a central issue of spoken language comprehension research (Cutler, 2001). And, recently, one important solution comes from the discovery of a mechanism operated in our lexical system, the Possible-Word Constraint (PWC). In their word-spotting experiments, Norris, McQueen, Cutler and Butterfield (1997) observed that listeners usually found it more difficult to...
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عنوان ژورنال: PSYCHOLOGIA
سال: 2004
ISSN: 0033-2852,1347-5916
DOI: 10.2117/psysoc.2004.169