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Psycholinguistics

segmentation constraint that penalizes parses of speech leaving a residue that could not be a word, such as a lone consonant.

In psycholinguistics, possible-word constraint refers to segmentation constraint that penalizes parses of speech leaving a residue that could not be a word, such as a lone consonant. This meaning comes from Norris (1997) in Cognitive Psychology.[1]

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residue3 fields · 5 citationsjingle · one word, three constructs segmentation5 fields · 5 citationsjingle · one word, five constructs word3 fields · 5 citationsjingle · one word, three constructs

References

Norris, D., Mcqueen, J. M., Cutler, A., & Butterfield, S. (1997). The Possible-Word Constraint in the Segmentation of Continuous Speech. Cognitive Psychology, 34(3), 191-243. https://doi.org/10.1006/cogp.1997.0671

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