Pause acceptability is predicted by morphological transparency in Wubuy

Brett J. Baker, Rikke L. Bundgaard-Nielsen

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Abstract

![CDATA[Research demonstrates that words in polysynthetic languages may be complex at the prosodic level. Little psycholinguistic research, however, has investigated the extent to which speakers of these languages are aware of word-internal structure, and whether morphological relations of different types affect the location of prosodic boundaries. We present an experiment testing the acceptability of words with embedded pauses, with speakers of the Australian language Wubuy. The results show that pauses are more acceptable at some word-internal morpheme boundaries than others. These boundaries are not consistently correlated with prosodic constituents, but are predictable on the basis of semantics and morphological productivity.]]
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the Sixteenth Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology, 6-9 December 2016, Parramatta, Australia
PublisherAustralasian Speech Science & Technology Association
Pages197-200
Number of pages4
Publication statusPublished - 2016
EventAustralasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology -
Duration: 6 Dec 2016 → …

Publication series

Name
ISSN (Print)2207-1296

Conference

ConferenceAustralasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology
Period6/12/16 → …

Keywords

  • Nunggubuyu language
  • morphology
  • psycholinguistics

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