Harmonic cues for speech segmentation: a cross-linguistic corpus study on child-directed speech
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2014
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Cambridge Univ Press
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info:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess
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Previous studies on the role of vowel harmony in word segmentation are based on artificial languages where harmonic cues reliably signal word boundaries. In this corpus study run on the data available at CHILDES, we investigated whether natural languages provide a learner with reliable segmentation cues similar to the ones created artificially. We observed that in harmonic languages (child-directed speech to thirty-five Turkish and three Hungarian children), but not in non-harmonic ones (child-directed speech to one Farsi and four Polish children), harmonic vowel sequences are more likely to appear within words, and non-harmonic ones mostly appear across word boundaries, suggesting that natural harmonic languages provide a learner with regular cues that could potentially be used for word segmentation along with other cues.
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Word Segmentation, Vowel Harmony, Stress, Boundaries
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Journal of Child Language
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Q1
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41
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2
