Prosodic cues for morphological complexity in Dutch and English
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Previous work has shown that Dutch listeners use prosodic information in the speech signal to optimise morphological processing: Listeners are sensitive to prosodic differences between a noun stem realised in isolation and a noun stem realised as part of a plural form (in which the stem is followed by an unstressed syllable). The present study, employing a lexical decision task, provides an additional demonstration of listeners’ sensitivity to prosodic cues Job No. 3976 MFK-Mendip Page: 43 of 73 Date: 17/1/05 Time: 8:24am Job ID: LANGUAGE SI-12
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تاریخ انتشار 2005