Lexical segmentation in Slovak and German / Adriana Hanulíková.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hanulíková, Adriana, author.

Series:

Studia grammatica ; 69.

studia grammatica, 0081-6469 ; 69

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Grammar, Comparative and general--Compensatory lengthening.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Slovak language--Grammar, Comparative--German.

Slovak language.

German language--Grammar, Comparative--Slovak.

German language.

Slovak language--Lexicography.

German language--Lexicography.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (128 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin, [Germany] : Akademie Verlag, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Front Matter

1. Introduction

2. Segmentation of Slovak speech

3. Native and non-native segmentation

4. The role of syllabification in speech segmentation

5. Summary and conclusions

Back Matter

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9783050062273

3050062274

OCLC:

922948768