Article Title：Lexical and acoustic factors in the perception of the Spanish diphthong vs. hiatus contrast
Abstract：
The present study considers the case of exceptional hiatus which recent literature reports to exist in the syllabification of certain vocoid sequences in Peninsular varieties of Spanish. The potential influence of lexical and acoustic factors on the perception of the syllabification of these vocoid sequences is considered. It is shown that both lexical and acoustic factors influence perception. An experiment was conducted to determine the relative strength of the lexical and the acoustic factors in stress perception, but the results were confounded by the dominance of an unexpected factor in perception. The frequency of occurrence of different syllabification patterns proved to play a large role in the perception, causing subjects to employ linguistic prediction based on the most common patterns found in the language. This study provides insight into the perception of syllabification patterns in Spanish, and presents new data in support of usage-based models of lexical storage.
Keywords: perception; syllabification; diphthong; hiatus; vocoid; lexical; acoustic; frequency; usage-based; phonology
DOI: 10.2307/20063061
Source：HISPANIA-A JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE TEACHING OF SPANISH AND PORTUGUESE
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