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Segmentation: Learning How to ‘Hear Words’ in the L2 Speech Stream
Author(s) -
Carroll Susanne E.
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
transactions of the philological society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.333
H-Index - 26
eISSN - 1467-968X
pISSN - 0079-1636
DOI - 10.1111/j.0079-1636.2004.00136.x
Subject(s) - segmentation , computer science , task (project management) , construct (python library) , perception , natural language processing , market segmentation , speech segmentation , basis (linear algebra) , speech recognition , part of speech , artificial intelligence , psychology , mathematics , business , geometry , management , marketing , neuroscience , economics , programming language
We ‘hear words’ when we can segment prosodic units from the speech stream and activate associated lexical entries. Segmentation is sometimes regarded in SLA as a perceptual problem, not a grammatical one. I argue here that this view is wrong: segmenting formatives results when we construct prosodic units on the basis of phonetic cues to their edges. The learner's first task is to acquire the relevant cues to these edges. The problem of segmentation is discussed within the framework provided by the Autonomous Induction Theory.