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RESYLLABIFICATION - Coggle Diagram
RESYLLABIFICATION
Additional Difficulties
Fast speech
Reductions
Assimilation
Linking
Stress patterns
Intonation
Practical Training
Listen to short clip
Transcribe
Compare with transcript
Mark shifted boundaries
Shadow repeatedly
Revisit after several days
Why Does It Happen?
Phonology operates after syntax
Languages optimise syllable structure
Ease of pronunciation
Phonotactic constraints
Sonority principles
Why Learners Struggle
Words stored separately
Native speech organised by syllables
Listening for dictionary forms
Missing connected speech patterns
Incorrect segmentation
Solution
Learn connected speech
Study syllable patterns
Shadow native audio
Notice word-boundary shifts
Practise producing resyllabification
Big Takeaway
Stop listening for words
Start listening for syllables
Start listening for chunks
Start listening for rhythm
Awareness alone improves comprehension
What Is It?
Changing syllable boundaries
Not changing words
Consonants move between syllables
Word boundaries ≠ syllable boundaries
Syllable Structure
Nucleus
Usually a vowel
Onset
Beginning of syllable
Coda
End of syllable
Sonority Hierarchy
Sonority rises toward vowel
Sonority falls after vowel
Impact on Listening
Known words become unrecognisable
Comprehension breakdown
False feeling of "speech is too fast"
Real issue = segmentation
Key Linguistic Concepts
Syntax
Word order
Grammar
Morphology
Meaningful parts of words
Phonology
Sound patterns
Syllable structure
Connected speech
Research Findings
Daniel Scarpace
English speakers over-separate Spanish words
Elizabeth Klingsch
Awareness improves perception
Court Reporter Study
Word boundary errors cause misunderstanding
Connection to Lexical Approach
Lexical chunks
what are you doing?
how've you been?
you know what I mean
at the end of the day
Phonological chunks
Stored as sound units
Recognised automatically
Native-like listening
Pattern recognition
Prediction
Chunk processing
L1 Interference
English speakers
Expect strong word boundaries
Insert glottal stops
Over-separate words
Spanish learners
Underuse resyllabification
Miss cross-word trills
Spanish Example
los otros
Learner expects
los | otros
Native pronunciation
lo | so | tros
Result
Harder word recognition
English Example
an apple
Learner expectation
an | apple
Acoustic reality
a | napple