What is it about?
Harmonic languages, but not the harmonic ones, provide cues for speech segmentations. Evidence provided from child-directed speech in harmonic languages Turkish and Hungarian, and non-harmonic languages, Farsi and Polish.
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Why is it important?
Segmentation studies based on artificial languages assume that harmonic languages are harmonic and non-harmonic languages are really non-harmonic. This studies provides evidence supporting that assumption.
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This page is a summary of: Harmonic cues for speech segmentation: a cross-linguistic corpus study on child-directed speech, Journal of Child Language, February 2013, Cambridge University Press,
DOI: 10.1017/s0305000912000724.
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