Syllabic complexity and syntagmatic rules for syllable production-a comment on aspects of the syntax of behaviour by D. G. Mackay |
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Authors: | R. D. Kent |
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Affiliation: | a Waisman Center on Mental Retardation and Human Development, University of Wisconsin, 2605 Marsh Lane, Madison, Wisconsin, U.S.A. |
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Abstract: | Using a metric of syllabic complexity derived from a syntagmatic theory of syllabic production, in which syllabic recoding expands a syllable into an optional initial consonant group and an obligatory vowel group, MacKay (1974) examined the relationship between the complexity of syllables and their durations in a task of rapid repetition. He concluded from spectrographic measurements of the test syllables that the complexity metric was a good predictor of the syllable durations, and hence syllable repetition rates. The present report demonstrates that comparable, if not better, predictions are made by a simpler theory based on the recoding of syllable structures as series of CV combinations, with appropriate reductions of C or V segments. |
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