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Berg, Thomas – Language and Cognitive Processes, 1991
In-depth analysis of a large corpus of English and German beginning consonant and syllable stress errors revealed that claims regarding these errors can not be replicated for Spanish, leading to the development of hypotheses focusing on Spanish as a pre-final-stress and syllable-timed language. (38 references) (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Consonants, Contrastive Linguistics, Distinctive Features (Language), English
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Studdert-Kennedy, Michael – Language and Speech, 1980
Reviews research on prosody and segmental perception, segmentation and invariance, categorical perception of speech and nonspeech, feature detectors, scaling speech sounds to an auditory-articulatory space, acoustic-phonetic dependencies within the syllable, higher order (nonphonetic) factors in the comprehension of fluent speech, and cerebral…
Descriptors: Acoustic Phonetics, Adults, Auditory Perception, Children