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Alexeeva, Svetlana; Frolova, Anastasia; Slioussar, Natalia – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2017
The Possible Word Constraint, or PWC, is a speech segmentation principle prohibiting to postulate word boundaries if a remaining segment contains only consonants. The PWC was initially formulated for English where all words contain a vowel and claimed to hold universally after being confirmed for various other languages. However, it is crucial to…
Descriptors: Russian, Psycholinguistics, Speech Communication, Phonemes
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Wayland, Ratree; Landfair, David; Li, Bin; Guion, Susan G. – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2006
The influence of syllabic structure, lexical class and stress patterns of known words on the acquisition of the English stress system was investigated in ten native Thai speakers. All participants were adult learners of English with an average length of residence in the US of 1.4 years. They were asked to produce and give perceptual judgments on…
Descriptors: Suprasegmentals, Vowels, Nouns, Native Speakers