Processing liaison-initial words in native and non-native French: evidence from eye movements
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French listeners have no difficulty recognizing liaison-initial words. This is in part because acoustic/phonetic information distinguishes liaison consonants from (non-resyllabified) word onsets in the speech signal. Using eye tracking, this study investigates whether native speakers of English, a language that does not have a phonological resyllabification process like liaison, can develop target-like segmentation procedures for recognizing liaison-initial words in French, and if so, how such procedures develop with increasing proficiency.
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