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Peer reviewedNorris, Dennis; McQueen, James M.; Cutler, Anne; Butterfield, Sally; Kearns, Ruth – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2001
Two word-spotting experiments are reported that examine whether the Possible-Word Constraint (PWC) is a language-specific or language-universal strategy for the segmentation of continuous speech. Examined cases where the residue was either a CVC syllable with a Schwa or a CV syllable with a lax vowel. Showed that the word-spotting results…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Language Universals, Oral Language, Phonology
