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Syllable Structure and External Evidence

Author(s) -

Marcellino Berardo

Publication year - 1997

Publication title -

kansas working papers in linguistics

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 2378-7600

pISSN - 1043-3805

DOI - 10.17161/kwpl.1808.331

Subject(s) - syllable , german , linguistics , word (group theory) , psycholinguistics , computer science , psychology , speech recognition , cognition , philosophy , neuroscience

To determine what psycholinguistic evidence (or external evidence) such as slips of the tongue, monosyllabic word blends, and novel word games reveals about syllable structure, this study focused on psycholinguistic research on the English and German syllable. English and German provide a good testing ground for evaluation of external evidence because much external evidence has been interpreted as revealing the internal organization of the syllable for both languages. It is concluded that psycholinguistic evidence does not reveal syllable structure, but rather how the linguistic processor organizes syllable-internal segments. Contains 39

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