Word Segmentation in Natural Speech. 1 Diminutives Facilitate Word Segmentation in Natural Speech: Cross-Linguistic Evidence
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Diminutives facilitate word segmentation in natural speech: cross-linguistic evidence.
Final-syllable invariance is characteristic of diminutives (e.g., doggie), which are a pervasive feature of the child-directed speech registers of many languages. Invariance in word endings has been shown to facilitate word segmentation (Kempe, Brooks, & Gillis, 2005) in an incidental-learning paradigm in which synthesized Dutch pseudonouns were used. To broaden the cross-linguistic evidence fo...
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تاریخ انتشار 2006