Perception of Prominence and Boundaries by Naïve French Listeners
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French phrasal structure is described as based on an accent group in which the final (non-schwa) vowel receives prominence by virtue of its position in the phrase. This co-occurrence of prominence and phrasal boundaries was verified experimentally by testing the perceptions of untrained participants. The listeners demonstrated a strong tendency to mark as prominent those words immediately preceding locations perceived as boundaries. Analyses of acoustic and syntactic properties of these locations are consistent with the idea that listeners used similar strategies in labeling both prominent words and boundaries.
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تاریخ انتشار 2011