The Role of Word-Initial Glottal Stops in Recognizing English Words

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

The Role of Word-Initial Glottal Stops in Recognizing English Words

Original language description

English word-initial vowels in natural continuous speech are optionally preceded by glottal stops or functionally equivalent glottalizations. It may be claimed that these glottal elements disturb the smooth flow of speech. However, they clearly mark wordboundaries, which may potentially facilitate speech processing in the brain of the listener. The present study utilizes the word-monitoring paradigm to determine whether listeners react faster to words with or without glottalizations. Three groups of subjects were compared: Czech and Spanish learners of English and native English speakers. The results indicate that perceptual use of glottalization for word segmentation is not entirely governed by universal rules and reflects the mother tongue of the listener as well as the status (L1/L2) of the target language.

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Type

D - Article in proceedings

CEP classification

AI - Linguistics

OECD FORD branch

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Project

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Continuities

O - Projekt operacniho programu

Publication year

2011

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Article name in the collection

Proceedings of Interspeech 2011

ISBN

978-1-61839-270-1

ISSN

1990-9772

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Number of pages

4

Pages from-to

165-168

Publisher name

Causal Productions

Place of publication

Florencie

Event location

Florencie

Event date

Aug 27, 2011

Type of event by nationality

WRD - Celosvětová akce

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