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I'd suggest that "word" isn't the proper level of
analysis. Much of everyday talk is made up of formulas,
cliches,<br>
lexicalized phrases--or whatever you want to call them. Why is it
important for you to use what is probably an<br>
artificial unit, even for normal adult language? As for
"didjano," I'd guess it's a single unit.<br><br>
Dan<br><br>
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At 07:08 AM 12/5/2006, JAN R EDWARDS wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">Hi everyone,<br><br>
While we are on the subject of CDS, I have a question also.<br>
We are working on developing CDS lexicons for several languages<br>
(English, Greek, Cantonese, Japanese). Because we are
interested<br>
in phoneme frequency and phoneme sequence frequency, we need<br>
to phonetically transcribe and segment the mother's (or other<br>
caregiver's) speech. This turns out to be somewhat complicated<br>
in the case of CDS, because we have to make decisions about<br>
where the word boundaries should be for infants. For example,<br>
how many words in "didja know..." Is anyone else
working<br>
on this or similar questions in English or other languages?<br><br>
Yours,<br>
Jan<br>
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