Research on the exploitation of prosodic information in the comprehension of spoken
language is reviewed. The research falls into three main areas: the use of prosody in the …

In Speaking, Willem" Pim" Levelt, Director of the Max-Planck-Institut für Psycholinguistik,
accomplishes the formidable task of covering the entire process of speech production, from …

Internationally recognised as one of the leading texts in its field, this volume offers a
comprehensive introduction to vocabulary for language teachers who would like to know …

A model of speech segmentation in a stress language is proposed, according to which the
occurrence of a strong syllable triggers segmentation of the speech signal, whereas …

A proper understanding of intelligibility is at the heart of effective pronunciation teaching,
and with it, successful teaching of speaking and listening. Far from being an optional'add-it …

A series of 15 experiments was conducted to explore English-learning infants' capacities to
segment bisyllabic words from fluent speech. The studies in Part I focused on 7.5 month …

Understanding speech in our native tongue seems natural and effortless; listening to speech
in a nonnative language is a different experience. In this book, Anne Cutler argues that …

For some 30 years, intelligibility has been recognized as an appropriate goal for
pronunciation instruction, yet remarkably little is known about the factors that make a …

Spanish but not French uses accent to distinguish between words (eg, tópo vs topó). Two
populations of subjects were tested on the same materials to determine whether this …

Compared the effect of frequency on lexical decision time (LDT) with that on reaction time
(RT) in four other tasks, for the same words and subjects. Exp. 1 yielded an effect on …