Syllable Structure and External Evidence

To determine what psycholinguistic evidence (or external evidence) such as slips of the tongue, monosyllabic word blends, and novel word games reveals about syllable structure, this investigation focuses on psycholinguistic research on the English and German syllable. English and German in particula...

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Main Author: Berardo, Marcellino
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Kansas 1997-01-01
Series:Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1808/331
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description To determine what psycholinguistic evidence (or external evidence) such as slips of the tongue, monosyllabic word blends, and novel word games reveals about syllable structure, this investigation focuses on psycholinguistic research on the English and German syllable. English and German in particular provide a good testing ground for the evaluation of external evidence because much external evidence has been interpreted as revealing the internal organization of the syllable for both languages. After a review of the external evidence, f argue that psycholinguistic evidence does not reveal syllable structure but rather how the linguistic processor organizes syllable-internal segments.
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spelling doaj.art-09c078dd1005451a9996833d870a0d872022-12-22T02:53:37ZengUniversity of KansasKansas Working Papers in Linguistics2378-76001997-01-0122164110.17161/KWPL.1808.331Syllable Structure and External EvidenceBerardo, MarcellinoTo determine what psycholinguistic evidence (or external evidence) such as slips of the tongue, monosyllabic word blends, and novel word games reveals about syllable structure, this investigation focuses on psycholinguistic research on the English and German syllable. English and German in particular provide a good testing ground for the evaluation of external evidence because much external evidence has been interpreted as revealing the internal organization of the syllable for both languages. After a review of the external evidence, f argue that psycholinguistic evidence does not reveal syllable structure but rather how the linguistic processor organizes syllable-internal segments.http://hdl.handle.net/1808/331English language-- SyllabicationGerman language-- Syllabication
spellingShingle Berardo, Marcellino
Syllable Structure and External Evidence
Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics
English language-- Syllabication
German language-- Syllabication
title Syllable Structure and External Evidence
title_full Syllable Structure and External Evidence
title_fullStr Syllable Structure and External Evidence
title_full_unstemmed Syllable Structure and External Evidence
title_short Syllable Structure and External Evidence
title_sort syllable structure and external evidence
topic English language-- Syllabication
German language-- Syllabication
url http://hdl.handle.net/1808/331
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