The role of early fundamental frequency rises and elbows in French word segmentation

2007 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 28-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pauline Welby
Keyword(s):  
Fundamental Frequency ◽  
Word Segmentation ◽  
French Word

scholarly journals Replication of Saffran, Newport, & Aslin (1996) Word segmentation: The role of distributional cues, Exp. 1

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Caitlin Garcia ◽  
Gina Iozzo ◽  
Katie Lamirato ◽  
James Ledoux ◽  
Jesse Mu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Word Segmentation ◽  
Distributional Cues ◽  
Larger Sample

We replicated Exp. 1 of Saffran, Newport, & Aslin (1996) Word segmentation: The role of distributional Cues, Journal of Memory and Language, 35, 606-621, as part of a multi-year project to replicate every published adult statistical word segmentation study. Despite a much larger sample than the original (101 subjects vs. 24), evidence of successful segmentation was weak and mixed, and none of the item or condition effects replicated. We consider whether this is more likely to be a failure of replication or a failure of generalization (e.g., to a different population).

scholarly journals Adaptive and selective production of syllable duration and fundamental frequency as word segmentation cues by French-English bilinguals

2019 ◽  
Vol 146 (6) ◽  
pp. 4255-4272
Author(s):  
Annie C. Gilbert ◽  
Max Wolpert ◽  
Haruka Saito ◽  
Shanna Kousaie ◽  
Inbal Itzhak ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Fundamental Frequency ◽  
Word Segmentation ◽  
Syllable Duration

scholarly journals The Role of the Syllable in Lexical Segmentation in French: Word-Spotting Data

2002 ◽  
Vol 81 (1-3) ◽  
pp. 144-161 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicolas Dumay ◽  
Uli H. Frauenfelder ◽  
Alain Content
Keyword(s):  
Word Spotting ◽  
French Word ◽  
Lexical Segmentation

Role of Fundamental Frequency Differences in the Perceptual Separation of Competing Vowel Sounds by Listeners With Normal Hearing and Listeners With Hearing Loss

1997 ◽  
Vol 40 (6) ◽  
pp. 1434-1444 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathryn Hoberg Arehart ◽  
Catherine Arriaga King ◽  
Kelly S. McLean-Mudgett
Keyword(s):  
Hearing Loss ◽  
Fundamental Frequency ◽  
Normal Hearing ◽  
Average Increase ◽  
Identification Task ◽  
Vowel Identification ◽  
Overall Performance ◽  
The Mean ◽  
Perceptual Separation

This study compared the ability of listeners with normal hearing and listeners with moderate to moderately-severe sensorineural hearing loss to use fundamental frequency differences (ΔF 0 ) in the identification of monotically presented simultaneous vowels. Two psychophysical procedures, double vowel identification and masked vowel identification, were used to measure identification performance as a function of ΔF 0 (0 through 8 semitones) between simultaneous vowels. Performance in the double vowel identification task was measured by the percentage of trials in which listeners correctly identified both vowels in a double vowel. The masked vowel identification task yielded thresholds representing signal-to-noise ratios at which listeners could just identify target vowels in the presence of a masking vowel. In the double vowel identification task, both listeners with normal hearing and listeners with hearing loss showed significant ΔF 0 benefit: Between 0 and 2 semitones, listeners with normal hearing showed an 18.5% average increase in performance; listeners with hearing loss showed a 16.5% average increase. In the masked vowel identification task, both groups showed significant ΔF 0 benefit. However, the mean benefit associated with ΔF 0 differences in the masked vowel task was more than twice as large in listeners with normal hearing 9.4 dB) when compared to listeners with hearing loss (4.4 dB), suggesting less ΔF 0 benefit in listeners with hearing loss. In both tasks, overall performance of listeners with hearing loss was significantly worse than performance of listeners with normal hearing. Possible reasons for reduced ΔF 0 benefit and decreased overall performance in listeners with hearing loss include reduced audibility of vowel sounds and deficits in spectro-temporal processing.

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