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Direct linkLangus, Alan; Marchetto, Erika; Bion, Ricardo Augusto Hoffmann; Nespor, Marina – Journal of Memory and Language, 2012
We tested whether adult listeners can simultaneously keep track of variations in pitch and syllable duration in order to segment continuous speech into phrases and group these phrases into sentences. The speech stream was constructed so that prosodic cues signaled hierarchical structures (i.e., phrases embedded within sentences) and non-adjacent…
Descriptors: Sentences, Cues, Native Language, Probability
