The Effect of Sonority on Word Segmentation: Evidence for the Use of a Phonological Universal

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-Engli...

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Main Authors: Ettlinger, Marc, Finn, Amy Sue, Hudson Kam, Carla L.
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: John Wiley & Sons, Inc 2014
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/88150
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7717-3562