This paper concerns the perception of syllable structure and the way this process allows us to form structural representations of syllables in memory. It is argued that bottom-up processes are required for the formation of phonological representations of nonwords in short-term memory, and of words in early childhood, where top-down knowledge concerning syllable structure cannot be assumed. A ne...

An experiment was carried out to examine the possibility of word-final F0 rise without lengthening in French. The results show that, although a variability is observed depending on speaker, syllable structure and syllable number, the final rise can be unaccompanied by vowel lengthening in the phrasemedian final syllable of a noun, in difference to the phrasefinal syllable which is lengthened to...

This study accounts for the acquisition of the consonant clusters of English syllable structures both in onset and coda positions by Persian EFL learners. Persian syllable structure is "CV(CC)", composed of one consonant at the initial position and two optional consonants at the final position; whereas English syllable structure is "(CCC)V(CCCC)". Therefore, Persian EFL learners need to resolve...

This paper investigates the emergence of complex syllable onsets through measurements of their duration compared to the duration of corresponding singleton syllable onsets. The results show that there is a difference in the progression in syllable onset duration that is dependent on subject age and onset structure.

French beginning readers might rely on syllables during reading acquisition. However, no in-depth developmental study has been carried out to determine how and when the syllable becomes this prelexical and segmental unit used in the time course of reading acquisition. We recruited 800 French-speaking children distributed in grade 1-5. We used a lexical decision task in a visual masked priming p...

In this paper, a data pruning approach is presented for building acoustic unit inventory for syllable-based concatenative embeddable Chinese TTS system. A 3-portion segmentation of a syllable is proposed based on the nature of voiced/unvoiced structure of Chinese syllable. Individual factorial acoustic measurement of syllable is used to calculate the penalty of perceptual unsatisfactory for con...