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Cutler, Anne; van Donselaar, Wilma – Language and Speech, 2001
Examined Dutch listeners' use of suprasegmental information in spoken-word recognition. Isolated syllables exised from minimal stress pairs such as "VOORnaam/voorNAAM" could be reliably assigned to their source words. Results indicate that Dutch listeners effectively exploit suprasegmental cues in recognizing spoken words. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Dutch, Oral Language, Suprasegmentals
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Studdert-Kennedy, Michael – Language and Speech, 1980
Reviews research on prosody and segmental perception, segmentation and invariance, categorical perception of speech and nonspeech, feature detectors, scaling speech sounds to an auditory-articulatory space, acoustic-phonetic dependencies within the syllable, higher order (nonphonetic) factors in the comprehension of fluent speech, and cerebral…
Descriptors: Acoustic Phonetics, Adults, Auditory Perception, Children