Most of the school-age children appeared able to organize their narratives at the segmental level provided the referential load was not too great.
He found no transposition of consonants or vowels, and concluded : 'in the whistled language the absence of the segmental features gives opportunity for ambiguities'.
Rather, they actively participate in the synchronous timing of movements, thereby anticipating the song's segmental units.
What is crucial about songs is the rhythmic and segmental characteristics of the vocal message, and this may make it primordial over early linguistic interaction.
By using minimal-set data, we could study these contrasts while keeping segmental influences constant.
Complex onsets like these are compatible with segmental theories of laryngeal licensing, but not with ours, which prohibits aspiration and glottalisation in the same margin.
The closer any such model gets to zero segmental redundancy, the less call there will be for adaptor mechanisms.
The sentences had been low-pass filtered to preserve their suprasegmental aspects while removing most of their segmental content.
