The role of stress in word segmentation

1992 ◽  
Vol 92 (4) ◽  
pp. 2443-2443 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul N. Yerkey ◽  
James R. Sawusch
Keyword(s):  
Word Segmentation

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 The Role of Prosody and Speech Register in Word Segmentation: A Computational Modelling Perspective

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bogdan Ludusan ◽  
Reiko Mazuka ◽  
Mathieu Bernard ◽  
Alejandrina Cristia ◽  
Emmanuel Dupoux
Keyword(s):  
Computational Modelling ◽  
Word Segmentation

The role of character positional frequency in oral reading: A developmental study

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kunyu Lian ◽  
Jie Ma ◽  
Feifei Liang ◽  
Ling Wei ◽  
Shuwei Zhang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Oral Reading ◽  
Chinese Language ◽  
Word Segmentation ◽  
Third Grade ◽  
Fixation Time ◽  
Developmental Study ◽  
Third Grade Students ◽  
Total Fixation

How frequently a character appears in a word (positional character frequency) is used as a cue in word segmentation when reading aloud in the Chinese language. In this study we created 176 sentences with a target word in the center of each. Participants were 76 college students (mature readers) and 76 third-grade students (beginner readers). Results show an interaction effect of age and positional frequency of the initial character in the word on gaze duration. Further analysis shows that the third-grade students’ gaze duration was significantly longer in high, relative to low, positional character frequency of the target words. This trend was consistent with refixation duration, and there was a marginally significant interaction between age and total fixation time. Overall, positional character frequency was an important cue for word segmentation in oral reading in the Chinese language, and third-grade students relied more heavily on this cue than did college students.

scholarly journals The learnability consequences of Zipfian distributions: Word Segmentation is Facilitated in More Predictable Distributions

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ori Lavi-Rotbain ◽  
Inbal Arnon
Keyword(s):  
Driving Force ◽  
Word Segmentation

This study looks at the predictablity level of words in child-directed speech, and shows that: (1) languages show similar predictability levels; (2) these levels are beneficial for word segmentation in both children and adults. The study discusses the role of learnability as a driving force towards Zipfian distributions of words.

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

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joshua K. Hartshorne ◽  
Lauren Skorb
Keyword(s):  
Word Segmentation ◽  
Distributional Cues

These are the results for an in-lab replication of Saffran, Newport, & Aslin (1996) Word segmentation: The role of distributional cues, Journal of Memory and Language, 35, 606-621. This replication follows an online replication of the same experiment (Hartshorne 2017, Replication of Saffran, Newport, & Aslin (1996) Word segmentation: The role of distributional cues, Exp. 1. PsyArXiv doi:10.17605/OSF.IO/E5C64).

scholarly journals Exploring the Role of Stress in Bayesian Word Segmentation using Adaptor Grammars

2014 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 93-104 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin Börschinger ◽  
Mark Johnson
Keyword(s):  
State Of The Art ◽  
Word Segmentation ◽  
Stress Constraint ◽  
Frequent Patterns ◽  
Current State ◽  
Proposed Model ◽  
Stress Patterns ◽  
A Current ◽  
Over Time

Stress has long been established as a major cue in word segmentation for English infants. We show that enabling a current state-of-the-art Bayesian word segmentation model to take advantage of stress cues noticeably improves its performance. We find that the improvements range from 10 to 4%, depending on both the use of phonotactic cues and, to a lesser extent, the amount of evidence available to the learner. We also find that in particular early on, stress cues are much more useful for our model than phonotactic cues by themselves, consistent with the finding that children do seem to use stress cues before they use phonotactic cues. Finally, we study how the model’s knowledge about stress patterns evolves over time. We not only find that our model correctly acquires the most frequent patterns relatively quickly but also that the Unique Stress Constraint that is at the heart of a previously proposed model does not need to be built in but can be acquired jointly with word segmentation.

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

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joshua K. Hartshorne
Keyword(s):  
Word Segmentation ◽  
Distributional Cues ◽  
Larger Sample

I replicated Exp. 1 of Saffran, Newport, & Aslin (1996) Word segmentation: The role of distributional cues, of Memory and Language, 35, 606-621, after a prior, largely unsuccessful replication attempt (Garcia et al., 2017, Replication of Saffran, Newport, & Aslin (1996) Word segmentation: The role of distributional cues, Exp. 1. PsyArXiv doi:10.17605/OSF.IO/QSYD2). The present replication corrected a randomization error in the prior replication and introduced attention checks to ensure that the participants were indeed attending to the stimuli. Despite this, and despite a much larger sample than the original (100 subjects vs. 24), evidence of successful segmentation was once again weak and mixed, and none of the item or condition effects replicated. I consider whether this is more likely to be a failure of replication or a failure of generalization (e.g., to a different population).

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