A Cantonese syllable-spotting experiment was conducted to examine whether the Possible-Word Constraint (PWC), proposed by Norris, McQueen, Cutler, and Butterfield (1997), can apply in Cantonese speech segmentation. In the experiment, listeners were asked to spot out the target Cantonese syllable fro...
The possible-word constraint in Cantonese speech segmentationMichael C.W. YipProceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society
The possible‐word constraint (PWC) limits the number of lexical candidates considered for a given input by stipulating that the input should be parsed into a string of feasible words [Norris et al., Cogn. Sci. 34, 191–243 (1997)]. Any segmentation resulting in impossible word candidates ...
The Possible Word Constraint, or PWC, is a speech segmentation principle prohibiting to postulate word boundaries if a remaining segment contains only consonants. The PWC was initially formulated for English where all words contain a vowel and claimed to hold universally after being confirmed for vari...
Erratum to: Data from Russian Help to Determine in Which Languages the Possible Word Constraint Appliesdoi:10.1007/s10936-017-9478-ySvetlana AlexeevaDepartmentAnastasia FrolovaDepartmentNatalia SlioussarDepartmentSpringerJournal of Psycholinguistic Research...