Beneficial effects of word final stress in segmenting a new language: evidence from ERPs

Background: How do listeners manage to recognize words in an unfamiliar language? The physical continuity of the signal, in which real silent pauses between words are lacking, makes it a difficult task. However, there are multiple cues that can be exploited to localize word boundaries and to segment...

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Autores: Cunillera, Toni, Gomila, Antoni, Rodríguez Fornells, Antoni
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Fecha de publicación:2008
País:España
Institución:Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya)
Repositorio:Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunya
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Palabra clave:Desenvolupament de programari d'aplicació
Estrès (Psicologia)
Development of application software
Stress (Psychology)
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title Beneficial effects of word final stress in segmenting a new language: evidence from ERPs
spellingShingle Beneficial effects of word final stress in segmenting a new language: evidence from ERPs
Cunillera, Toni
Desenvolupament de programari d'aplicació
Estrès (Psicologia)
Development of application software
Stress (Psychology)
title_short Beneficial effects of word final stress in segmenting a new language: evidence from ERPs
title_full Beneficial effects of word final stress in segmenting a new language: evidence from ERPs
title_fullStr Beneficial effects of word final stress in segmenting a new language: evidence from ERPs
title_full_unstemmed Beneficial effects of word final stress in segmenting a new language: evidence from ERPs
title_sort Beneficial effects of word final stress in segmenting a new language: evidence from ERPs
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Cunillera, Toni
Gomila, Antoni
Rodríguez Fornells, Antoni
author Cunillera, Toni
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Gomila, Antoni
Rodríguez Fornells, Antoni
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Rodríguez Fornells, Antoni
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Desenvolupament de programari d'aplicació
Estrès (Psicologia)
Development of application software
Stress (Psychology)
topic Desenvolupament de programari d'aplicació
Estrès (Psicologia)
Development of application software
Stress (Psychology)
description Background: How do listeners manage to recognize words in an unfamiliar language? The physical continuity of the signal, in which real silent pauses between words are lacking, makes it a difficult task. However, there are multiple cues that can be exploited to localize word boundaries and to segment the acoustic signal. In the present study, word-stress was manipulated with statistical information and placed in different syllables within trisyllabic nonsense words to explore the result of the combination of the cues in an online word segmentation task. Results: The behavioral results showed that words were segmented better when stress was placed on the final syllables than when it was placed on the middle or first syllable. The electrophysiological results showed an increase in the amplitude of the P2 component, which seemed to be sensitive to word-stress and its location within words. Conclusion: The results demonstrated that listeners can integrate specific prosodic and distributional cues when segmenting speech. An ERP component related to word-stress cues was identified: stressed syllables elicited larger amplitudes in the P2 component than unstressed ones.
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