The underlying structures of sentences are the primary units of immediate speech processing |
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Authors: | T. G. Bever J. R. Lackner R. Kirk |
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Affiliation: | 1. Department of Psychology, Rockefeller University, York Avenue and East 66th, 10021, New York, N.Y. 2. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
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Abstract: | Two studies of the subjective location of clicks in spoken sentences indicate: (1) within-clause phrase structure boundaries do not significantly affect the segmentation of spoken sentences; (2) divisions between underlying structure sentences determine segmentation even in the absence of corresponding explicit clause divisions in the surface phrase structure. These results support a model of speech processing according to which listeners actively segment and organize spoken sequences into potential underlying syntactic structures. |
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