Paola E. Dussias

Perceiving word structure in time: cross-linguistic evidence from English and Spanish

Patterns of durational variation can offer rich phonetic cues to word structure, such as the number of syllables a word contains, or its morphological structure. In this study, we examine two types of durational cues: direct phonetic cues, which reflect phonological features, such as syllable count, and ancillary morph...