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Ettlinger, Marc; Finn, Amy S.; Hudson Kam, Carla L. – Cognitive Science, 2012
It has been well documented how language-specific cues may be used for word segmentation. Here, we investigate what role a language-independent phonological universal, the sonority sequencing principle (SSP), may also play. Participants were presented with an unsegmented speech stream with non-English word onsets that juxtaposed adherence to the…
Descriptors: Phonology, Cues, Acoustics, Language Universals