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Talk: Are chunk sizes the same across different languages?Authors: Aleksandra Dobrego, Alena Konina, Anna Mauranen
Our study aims at examining cross-linguistic differences in naturalistic speech perception. We hypothesised that size of chunks in Swedish, Russian and Finnish is affected by differences in the structure of these languages. We chose extracts of spontaneous spoken speech and asked native speakers to mark boundaries between speech segments. We operationalised chunk size as the mean number of orthographic words between non-random boundaries placed by the participants. We found that the continuum of chunk size is highest for Swedish, followed by Russian, and shortest for Finnish. We suggest that nature of a language have influenced participants' boundary choices.
| Period | 20 aug. 2021 |
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| Evenemangstitel | 19th AILA World Congress 2021 |
| Typ av evenemang | Konferens |
| Plats | Groningen, HollandVisa på karta |
| Omfattning | Internationell |
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Chunking in language: units of meaning and processing
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Finnish Academy of Science and Letters grant
Pris: Pris och hedersbetygelser