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It seems like it'd be useful for one or both of you to cite any research than has been done on this. Seems more productive (and enlightening to all) than the a

• gizmo686 9y ago
  Unfourtuantly, this is so well established that it is hard to find research. I did find this paper [1] which looks into how babies acuire word boundries. As you identify, there are probably phonetic cues; but not pauses. The best way to see this is to try listening to a language you do not understand, and try to identify word boundries. Indeed, the paper I link argues that some phonetic cue must exist because babies can recognise word boundries. [1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8176060 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8176060
  • gizmo686 9y ago
    It seems I linked only to the abstract. Here [1] is the pdf. [1] https://www.sissa.it/cns/Articles/94_doInfPerceiveWordB.pdf https://www.sissa.it/cns/Articles/94_doInfPerceiveWordB.pdf
• yomly 9y ago
  Well for starters, a Japanese speaker can tell the differences between God "kami" and paper "kami"... A monotonal, monotempo sound would not be able to make that difference audible https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_pitch_accent https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_pitch_accent