A ‘Pause-Break’ Task For Eliciting Syllable Boundary Judgments from Literate and Illiterate Speakers: Preliminary Results for Five Diverse Languages

Derwing, Bruce L.

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“…In line with our view, ambisyllabic responses also occurred, to some extent, for words that from a linguistic point of view are not considered to include a phonologically ambisyllabic consonant (i.e., words with stress on the second syllable). Similar observations have been described for English with other metalinguistic tasks (Derwing, 1992;Fallows, 1981).…”

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“…In Treiman and Danis's (1988a) syllable reversal experiments, the consonant was less often assigned to the second syllable in first-than in second-syllable stress words (Experiment 2, 56% vs 91%) and within first-syllable stress words for short/lax than for long/tense vowels (Experiment 3, 61% vs 76%). Similarly, in Derwing's (1992) study, in which participants were required to choose between three different syllabifications (coda of first syllable, onset of second syllable, or ambisyllabic), coda assignment was the predominant choice for words with firstsyllable stress which contained a lax vowel and a liquid or nasal intervocalic consonant.…”

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Boundaries versus Onsets in Syllabic Segmentation

Kearns

Frauenfelder

2001

Journal of Memory and Language

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This study investigated the explicit syllabification of CVCV words in French. In a first syllable-reversal experiment, most responses corresponded to the expected canonical CV.CV segmentation, but a small proportion included the intervocalic consonant in both the first and second syllables, a result previously interpreted for English as indicating ambisyllabicity. Two further partial-repetition experiments showed that listeners systematically include the consonant in the onset of the second syllable, but also often include it in the offset of the first syllable. In addition, the assignment of the intervocalic consonant to the first and second syllables was differentially sensitive to the sonority of the consonant and to its spelling. We argue that the findings are inconsistent with the traditionally held boundary conception and instead support the view that distinct processes are involved in locating the onsets and the offsets of syllables. Onset determination is both more reliable and more dominant. Finally, we propose that syllable onsets serve as alignment points for the lexical search process in continuous spoken word recognition.

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Boundaries versus Onsets in Syllabic Segmentation

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Frauenfelder

2001

Journal of Memory and Language

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“…Twenty-four CV English words (with clear initial syllable boundaries) were taken from Treiman and Danis (1988;see Appendix B). These words had a clear syllable boundary after the initial CV (e.g., DIVORCE), according to linguistic and behavioral evidence reported by Treiman and Danis (1988) and Derwing (1992). All phonological theories appear to agree that for CV words with primary stress on the second syllable the boundary must fall between the first vowel and the medial consonant (giving DI.VORCE).…”

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The syllable’s role in word naming

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In a series of experiments, the masked priming paradigm with very brief prime exposures was used to investigate the role of the syllable in the production of English. Experiment 1 (word naming task) showed a syllable priming effect for English words with clear initial syllable boundaries (such as BAL-CONY), but no effect with ambisyllabic words targets (such as BALANCE, where the /l/belongs to both the first and the second syllables). Experiment 2 failed to show such syllable priming effects in the lexical decision task. Experiment 3 demonstrated that for words with clear initial syllable boundaries, naming latencies were faster only when primes formed the first syllable of the target, in comparison with a neutral condition. Experiment 4 showed that the two possible initial syllables of ambisyllabic words facilitated word naming to the same extent, in comparison with the neutral condition. Finally, Experiment 5 demonstrated that the syllable priming effect obtained for CV words with clear initial syllable boundaries (such as DIVORCE) was not due to increased phonological and/or orthographic overlap. These results, showing that the syllable constitutes a unit of speech production in English, are discussed in relation to the model of phonological and phonetic encoding proposed by Levelt and Wheeldon (1994).What is the role of syllables in speech production? In a recent study, Ferrand, Segui, and Grainger (1996) demonstrated that French subjects responded faster in word-, nonword-, or picture-naming tasks when the prime corresponded to the first syllable of the stimulus than when it corresponded to a longer or a shorter segment than the first syllable. Each prime corresponded to a complete syllable only in one of the two words: BA was exactly the first syllable of the word BA.LADE,l but less than the first syllable of the word BAL.CON, whereas BAL was exactly the first syllable OfBAL.CON, but more than the first syllable of BA.LADE. Thus the word BA.LADE was named faster when preceded by the prime BA than by BAL, whereas the word BAL.CON was named faster when preceded by the prime BAL than by BA. These results provide evidence for the syllable as a fundamental unit of speech production in French and mirror those obtained in speech perception (Mehler, Frauenfelder, Dommergues, & Segui,The research reported in this article was partially supported by a postdoctoral grant (COGNISCIENCES) to L.F. from the Centre National delaRecherche Scientifique (C.N.R.S.) and byanEconomic and Social Research Council grant to G.W.H. A preliminary report of this study was presented at the European Summer School on "Aspects of Speech Production," held attheUniversity ofBirmingham, England, in July 1995. We thank Kathryn Spoehr, Arthur Samuel, Linda Wheeldon, Ardi Roelofs, and two anonymous reviewers for their comments onthis work. Address correspondence to 1. Ferrand, Laboratoire de Psychologie Experimentale, C.N.R.S. and Universite Rene Descartes, 28 rueSerpente, 75006 Paris, France (e-mail: ferrandl@idf.ext.jussieu.fr).1981; Segui, 1...

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“…The link between geminates and ambisyllabicity is supported by some psycholinguistic evidence. For instance, in syllable boundary elicitation tasks, consonants spelled with a double letter are more likely to be classified as ambisyllabic (Derwing, 1992;Treiman & Danis, 1988;Treiman & Zukowski, 1990). Ambisyllabicity has also been argued for geminates based on their phonetic and phonological properties.…”

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Resyllabification Reconsidered: On the Durational Properties of Word-Final /s/ in Spanish

Strycharczuk

Kohlberger

2016

Laboratory Phonology

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Corresponding author: Patrycja StrycharczukWord-final consonants in Spanish are commonly assumed to undergo resyllabification across a word boundary before a following vowel, e.g., /los#otros/ 'the others' is realised as [lo.so.tros]. However, in many dialects of Spanish, word-final pre-vocalic consonants ('derived onsets') pattern phonologically with canonical codas and distinctly from canonical onsets. This property of derived onsets has been the subject of much interest in the phonological literature, and has led some linguists to question whether resyllabification indeed applies in all Spanish dialects. In this paper, we evaluate evidence for resyllabification based on acoustic data from 11 speakers of Peninsular Spanish. The results show that word-final pre-vocalic /s/ has increased duration compared to coda /s/, but at the same time, it is shorter compared to word-initial or word-medial pre-vocalic /s/. This result challenges an analysis where derived onsets become phonologically indistinguishable from canonical onsets. We consider an alternative in the form of partial resyllabification, and we further discuss the role of the syllable as a relevant unit in explaining /s/-sandhi in Spanish.

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A ‘Pause-Break’ Task For Eliciting Syllable Boundary Judgments from Literate and Illiterate Speakers: Preliminary Results for Five Diverse Languages

Cited by 36 publications

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Boundaries versus Onsets in Syllabic Segmentation

Boundaries versus Onsets in Syllabic Segmentation

The syllable’s role in word naming

Resyllabification Reconsidered: On the Durational Properties of Word-Final /s/ in Spanish

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