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Phonological Unit Segmentation

Phonological Unit Segmentation is the cognitive process of identifying and isolating individual sound components, such as syllables, onsets, rimes, or phonemes, within spoken words, distinguishing it from broader phonological awareness by focusing specifically on discrete sublexical auditory units.

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Explicit syllable and phoneme segmentation in the young child

Isabelle Y. Liberman, Donald Shankweiler, Florian Fischer et al. · Journal of Experimental Child Psychology · 1974 · 1.4K citations

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Segmental phonology of Modern English

Morris Halle, K. P. Mohanan · Linguistic Inquiry · 1985 · 439 citations

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Automatic segmentation of speech into syllabic units

P. Mermelstein · The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 1975 · 277 citations

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Puzzle-solving science: the quixotic quest for units in speech perception

Stephen D. Goldinger, Tamiko Azuma · Journal of Phonetics · 2003 · 264 citations · Full text

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Emerging Integration of Sequential and Suprasegmental Information in Preverbal Speech Segmentation

James L. Morgan, Jenny R. Saffran · Child Development · 1995 · 198 citations

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    Okko Räsänen

    Aalto University, Finland

    3 publications · 159 citations

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    Michael C. Frank

    Stanford University, United States

    2 publications · 144 citations

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    Anne Cutler

    Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Netherlands

    2 publications · 149 citations

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    Rinus G. Verdonschot

    Nagoya University, Japan

    2 publications · 77 citations

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    Jenny R. Saffran

    University of Wisconsin–Madison, United States

    2 publications · 393 citations

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  1. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    5 h-index

    13 publications

    686 citations

  2. Université Libre de Bruxelles

    Brussels, Belgium

    4 h-index

    10 publications

    477 citations

  3. Macquarie University

    Sydney, Australia

    3 h-index

    3 publications

    95 citations

  4. Harvard University

    Cambridge, United States

    3 h-index

    3 publications

    279 citations

  5. Haskins Laboratories

    New Haven, United States

    3 h-index

    3 publications

    338 citations

  6. Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics

    Nijmegen, The Netherlands

    3 h-index

    5 publications

    292 citations

  7. Max Planck Society

    Munich, Germany

    2 h-index

    3 publications

    156 citations

  8. Laboratoire de Psychologie et NeuroCognition

    Grenoble, France

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    30 citations

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  1. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

    JECP · 3 publications · 1.5K citations

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  2. Brain and Language

    3 publications · 116 citations

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  3. NeuroImage

    3 publications · 270 citations

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  4. Psychological Research

    2 publications · 36 citations

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  5. Applied Psycholinguistics

    2 publications · 188 citations

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