Projects

For a summary of our current research, you can read our Mid-Term Report, written March 2009. The rest of the Projects page will be updated to give more detail about recent results after the spring 2010 reports are written.

S2S's research is based around 11 interrelated projects, which are grouped into 4 themes:
Theme I: Multi-linguistic and comparative research on fine phonetic detail - Projects 1-4
Theme II: Imperfect knowledge/signal - Projects 5-6
Theme III: Beyond short units of speech - Projects 7-8
Theme IV: Exemplars and abstraction - Projects 9-11

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Project 3: Perceptual salience of FPD 1 - Segmentation of speech into words and phrases

Speech-segmentation research investigates how listeners identify word boundaries in connected speech. Many perceptual/linguistic mechanisms supporting speech segmentation are documented, but evidence for their application to real-life speech is virtually non-existent. Having established the distributional validity and reliability of segmentation cues from spontaneous-speech corpora (Project 1), S2S will fill this gap by testing listeners’ reliance on such cues when hearing spontaneous speech. The aim is to provide the most ecologically valid, empirically supported account of speech segmentation to date, thereby helping to model efficient speech understanding.

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Working on this project: » Dr Sven Mattys » Dr Mirjam Ernestus » Prof Sarah Hawkins » Olesya Rauch » Prof Jeff Bowers » Dr Laurence White

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