This paper examines the question of cognitive status of syllable as a linguistic unit. The experiment was conceived in the objective to test, in a metalinguistic task of counting the syllables, put to French speaking subjects, whether the syllable is a mere methodological concept adopted in linguistic descriptions or whether there is a cognitive reality behind it. Working with filtered stimuli permits to concentrate the attention on the role of the syllable in the prosodic organisation of the utterance.
Cite as: Nesterenko, I. (2002) French listeners counting syllables in read French and Russian: implications for the cognitive realty of syllable. Proc. Speech Prosody 2002, 531-534
@inproceedings{nesterenko02_speechprosody,
author={Irina Nesterenko},
title={{French listeners counting syllables in read French and Russian: implications for the cognitive realty of syllable}},
year=2002,
booktitle={Proc. Speech Prosody 2002},
pages={531--534}
}