The use of phrase-level prosodic information in lexical segmentation: Evidence from word-spotting experiments in Korean
- Authors
- Kim, Sahyang; Cho, Taehong
- Issue Date
- May-2009
- Publisher
- ACOUSTICAL SOC AMER AMER INST PHYSICS
- Citation
- JOURNAL OF THE ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA, v.125, no.5, pp.3373 - 3386
- Journal Title
- JOURNAL OF THE ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA
- Volume
- 125
- Number
- 5
- Start Page
- 3373
- End Page
- 3386
- URI
- https://scholarworks.bwise.kr/hongik/handle/2020.sw.hongik/21862
- DOI
- 10.1121/1.3097777
- ISSN
- 0001-4966
- Abstract
- This study investigated the role of phrase-level prosodic boundary information in word segmentation in Korean with two word-spotting experiments. In experiment 1, it was found that intonational cues alone helped listeners with lexical segmentation. Listeners paid more attention to local intonational cues (...H#L...) across the prosodic boundary than the intonational information within a prosodic phrase. The results imply that intonation patterns with high frequency are used, though not exclusively, in lexical segmentation. In experiment 2, final lengthening was added to see how multiple prosodic cues influence lexical segmentation. The results showed that listeners did not necessarily benefit from the presence of both intonational and final lengthening cues: Their performance was improved only when intonational information contained infrequent tonal patterns for boundary marking, showing only partially cumulative effects of prosodic cues. When the intonational information was optimal (frequent) for boundary marking, however, poorer performance was observed with final lengthening. This is arguably because the phrase-initial segmental allophonic cues for the accentual phrase were not matched with the prosodic cues for the intonational phrase. It is proposed that the asymmetrical use of multiple cues was due to interaction between prosodic and segmental information that are computed in parallel in lexical segmentation. (c) 2009 Acoustical Society of America. [DOI: 10.1121/1.3097777]
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