Prosodic Constraints and Processing Theory

Taft, Lori

doi:10.3765/bls.v11i0.1909

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“…We elicited spontaneous speech containing a series of target phrases by asking participants to relay information in a text to 9th International Conference on Speech Prosody 2018 13-16 June 2018, Poznań, Poland a confederate. Inspired by classic studies [3,8], 27 pairs of (quasi-) homophonous phrases were compiled differing in word boundary placement, namely, whether the pivot consonant was a coda or an onset, e.g. beef#eater vs. bee#feeder.…”

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“…Possible cues to word boundaries have been studied for several decades on the basis of laboratory read speech. Aside from phonotactic restrictions [1,2], metrical structure [3,4,5,6] and syntactic and semantic contexts [7], acoustic phonetic cues, e.g. durational patterns, F0, amplitude contour, and allophonic variation, have been found to be informative in indicating word boundaries when other (e.g.…”

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Durational cues to word boundaries in spontaneous speech

Tao¹,

Torreira²,

Clayards³

2018

Speech Prosody 2018

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We investigated the extent to which durational cues to word boundaries are present in spontaneous speech. Spontaneous speech of North American English was elicited in a production experiment, with target phrases embedded in articles provided to participants. Each pair of target phrases only differed in the placement of word boundaries, e.g. beef#eater vs. bee#feeder. We examined the duration of: (1) the pivot consonant at the juncture (e.g. [f] in [bi:fiɾɚ]), (2) the pre-juncture section (e.g. [bi:] in [bi:fiɾɚ]), and (3) the post-juncture section (e.g. [iɾɚ] in [bi:fiɾɚ]), to see how these durations can signal word boundaries. We found no evidence for word-final lengthening in our study. However, similar to boundary-related lengthening found in laboratory read speech, word-initial lengthening was found in spontaneous speech, which could potentially serve as an important cue to word segmentation.

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