Early segmentation of fluent speech by infants acquiring French: Emerging evidence for crosslinguistic differences

Article Abstract:

French-learning infants' ability to segment words from fluent speech is explored with focus on disyllabic words to investigate whether infants segment them as whole words or segment each syllable individually. The findings are that the syllable is a unit of prosodic segmentation in French, therefore introducing evidence from a syllable based language in support of the more general hypothesis that the emergence of segmentation abilities differs cross linguistically as a function of the rhythmic class of the language in acquisition.

Analysis, Education, Infants, Language acquisition, French language

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Lexical activity in speech processing: evidence from pause detection

Article Abstract:

The sensitivity of pause detection to lexical activity during spoken word processing is explored and its influence on speech recognition timecourse is analyzed. The results indicate its usefulness as a gauge of lexical activity in speech sequence and at word boundaries.

Evaluation, Voice recognition, Speech recognition, Lexicology

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Effects of orthography on speech production in a form-preparation paradigm

Article Abstract:

The potential influence of spelling on constraining speech production is studied using a form-preparation paradigm. The study yielded evidence of interactions between orthography and phonology in speech production.

Speech, Spelling

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