scholarly journals Correction to: When statistics collide: The use of transitional and phonotactic probability cues to word boundaries

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rodrigo Dal Ben ◽  
Débora de Hollanda Souza ◽  
Jessica F. Hay
Keyword(s):  
Phonotactic Probability ◽  
Word Boundaries

scholarly journals When statistics collide: The use of transitional and phonotactic probability cues to word boundaries by Brazilian-Portuguese adults

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rodrigo Dal Ben ◽  
Débora de Hollanda Souza ◽  
Jessica Hay
Keyword(s):  
Second Language Acquisition ◽  
Brazilian Portuguese ◽  
Speech Segmentation ◽  
Transitional Probability ◽  
Phonotactic Probability ◽  
Test Items ◽  
Early Language Development ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Word Boundaries ◽  
Statistical Regularities

Statistical regularities in linguistic input shape early language development and second language acquisition. For example, both transitional probability and phonotactic probability play a role in speech segmentation, however, it remains unclear whether or how these statistics are combined when small differences in phonotactic probabilities are presented. We conducted two experiments to investigate the effects of transitional and phonotactic probabilities on speech segmentation by Brazilian-Portuguese-speaking adults. Four pseudo-languages, with six words each, were created. The transitional probabilities between words’ biphones were high, whereas the probabilities between part-words’ biphones were lower. Although the within and between word phonotactic probability were always high, they varied slightly across the familiarization languages and test words/part-words. Languages 1 and 2 had familiarization words with unbalanced phonotactics, but target words and part-words used at test were phonotactically balanced. Languages 3 and 4 had familiarization words with balanced phonotactics, but phonotactics were unbalanced across test items; In Language 3 words had slightly lower phonotactics that part-words. The reverse was true for Language 4. Eighty-one Brazilian-Portuguese speaking adults were divided in four groups. Each group was familiarized with one version of the language and then tested on two-alternative forced choice trials. Participants presented with Languages 1, 2 and 4 preferred words to part-words at test. However, participants who heard Language 3 did not select words above chance. There was no significant difference in word selection between Language 4 and Languages 1 and 2, despite the fact that phonotactics were higher during both familiarization and test for words from the fourth language. These findings indicate that phonotactic and transitional information can be tracked and combined to facilitate or impair speech segmentation. Furthermore, they suggest that subtle differences in phonotactics are more informative of word boundaries than congruency between high phonotactic and transitional probability cues.

Co-Articulation at Word Boundaries and the Frequency Effect in Serial Recall

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leonie M. Miller ◽  
Steven Roodenrys ◽  
Benjamin Arcioni
Keyword(s):  
Serial Recall ◽  
Frequency Effect ◽  
Word Boundaries

scholarly journals Icelandic post-lexical syllabification and vowel length in CVCV phonology

2016 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcin Fortuna
Keyword(s):  
Complex Pattern ◽  
Vowel Length ◽  
Modified Model ◽  
Word Boundaries

AbstractThe paper aims at providing a CVCV analysis of the Icelandic syllabification phenomena and the distribution of vocalic quantity. Two syllabification algorithms are reported to exist in Icelandic: lexical and post-lexical (Árnason 1998, 2011). The article will focus on the post-lexical algorithm, which determines vowel length in derivatives with class 2 suffixation, compounds, and across word boundaries. A modified model of CVCV will be argued for, which combines the insights from Scheer’s (2004, 2012) and Cyran’s (2003, 2010) model. It will be proposed that phonological computation applies only once to the whole string (preferably the whole sentence) and that the activity of the interface boils down to representational intervention (in accordance with Scheerian Direct Interface). It will be proposed that manipulation of Final Empty Nuclei (at least in the form of distributing parametric government) is a possible interface operation, as assumed in earlier CVCV (Scheer 2004). The complex pattern of two syllabification algorithms in Icelandic arises via an intricate interplay of sonority profiles of consonants and the needs of intervening empty nuclei (some of which are parametrically governed, while some others are not).

Crossing boundaries: more evidence for phonological constraints on early multi-word utterances

1989 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-54 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward H. Matthei
Keyword(s):  
Phonological Development ◽  
Consonant Harmony ◽  
Word Level ◽  
Initial Syllable ◽  
Phonological Constraints ◽  
Word Boundaries

ABSTRACTA number of researchers have argued that phonological constraints may influence the emergence and form of combinatorial speech in children. Donahue (1986) presented evidence that one child's consonant harmony constraint operated across word boundaries. This paper presents further evidence for the operation of word-level phonological constraints in multi-word utterances. Selection and avoidance patterns as well as her modifications of adult forms indicate the presence of a syllable sequencing constraint in this child's grammar: an initial syllable must begin with a consonant whose sonority value is not less than that of the following syllable. The same constraint governs the form of her early word combinations. The existence of evidence for the operation of word-level constraints in word combinations, it is pointed out, has consequences for how we interpret two-lexicon models of phonological development.

scholarly journals Word Boundaries Affect Visual Attention in Chinese Reading

PLoS ONE ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 7 (11) ◽  
pp. e48905 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xingshan Li ◽  
Guojie Ma
Keyword(s):  
Visual Attention ◽  
Chinese Reading ◽  
Word Boundaries

Towards a Historical Treebank of Middle and Early Modern Welsh, Part I: Workflow and POS Tagging

2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 125-154
Author(s):  
Marieke Meelen ◽  
David Willis
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Pos Tagging ◽  
Part Of Speech ◽  
European Languages ◽  
Welsh Language ◽  
Word Boundaries ◽  
Exhaustive Extraction ◽  
Grammatical Structures

This article introduces the working methods of the Parsed Historical Corpus of the Welsh Language (PARSHCWL). The corpus is designed to provide researchers with a tool for automatic exhaustive extraction of instances of grammatical structures from Middle and Modern Welsh texts in a way comparable to similar tools that already exist for various European languages. The major features of the corpus are outlined, along with the overall architecture of the workflow needed for a team of researchers to produce it. In this paper, the two first stages of the process, namely pre-processing of texts and automated part-of-speech (POS) tagging are discussed in some detail, focusing in particular on major issues involved in defining word boundaries and in defining a robust and useful tagset.

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