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Judgments of the location of short bursts of noise in sentences were used to reveal perceptual segmentation of sentences. It was assumed that segmentation would correspond to major constituent boundaries. In order to control for correlated variables of pitch and intonation, identical acoustic material was provided with alternate constituent structures. It was found that differences in response to identical strings were predicted by the points of variation in constituent structure.

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1. Merrill Garrett
   Present address: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard University, USA

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1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Illinois, USA
   Merrill Garrett
2. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard University, USA
   Thomas Bever & Jerry Fodor

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1. Merrill Garrett
2. Thomas Bever
3. Jerry Fodor

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Garrett, M., Bever, T. & Fodor, J. The active use of grammar in speech perception.Perception & Psychophysics 1, 30–32 (1966). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03207817

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• Issue date: January 1966
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03207817

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