VOL. 54, BOOK 1, PART B, 2016, pp. 48 – 57 Full text (Fr)

Author: Malina Ditcheva, Jean-Yves Dommergues

Affiliation: Paisii Hilendarski University of Plovdiv, University Paris 8

Abstract

Speech units of different linguistic levels, especially those of prosody and syntax, frequently overlap; thus, the final word(s) of one word group, also making up the beginning of the next group, could act as a memory trigger. The objective of this study is to theoretically justify and experimentally assess the role of such a double segmentation and, more generally, of the overlapping of speech segments in creating useful associative mnesic links.

Key words: Verbatim Memory, Associative Approach, Syntax-Prosody Interaction