Lexical segmentation in Slovak and German
Paperback
Lieferzeit: Print on Demand - Lieferbar innerhalb von 3-5 Werktagen I
ISBN-13:
9783050046327
Veröffentl:
2009
Einband:
Paperback
Erscheinungsdatum:
17.06.2009
Seiten:
128
Autor:
Adriana Hanulíková
Gewicht:
258 g
Format:
240x170x10 mm
Serie:
ISSN
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
All humans are equipped with perceptual and articulatory mechanisms which (in healthy humans) allow them to learn to perceive and produce speech. One basic question in psycholinguistics is whether humans share similar underlying processing mechanisms for all languages, or whether these are fundamentally different due to the diversity of languages and speakers. This book provides a cross-linguistic examination of speech comprehension by investigating word recognition in users of different languages. The focus is on how listeners segment the quasi-continuous stream of sounds that they hear into a sequence of discrete words, and how a universal segmentation principle, the Possible Word Constraint, applies in the recognition of Slovak and German.