ESCA Workshop on Prosody Lund, Sweden September 27-29, 1993

Rhythmic Patterns and Lexical Parsing in French

Nicole Bacri, Marie-Hélène Banel

Laboratoire de Psychologie Experimental, URA 316 CNRS, Universite Rene Descartes, Paris, France

Two experiments examined the effects of usual and reverse rhythmic patterns on two- syllable sequence segmentation. The usual short-long pattern impeded parsing of monosyllabic words embedded in disyllabic words. In Experiment 2, focusing subjects'attention on the timing structure strengthened this effect. Implications for speech recognition models are discussed.

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Bibliographic reference.  Bacri, Nicole / Banel, Marie-Hélène (1993): "Rhythmic patterns and lexical parsing in French", In Prosody-1993, 120-123.