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. 2009 May 14;125(6):EL236–EL241. doi: 10.1121/1.3129304

Table 1.

Examples of the four possible categories of LBEs, based on type (insertion or deletion) and location (before strong or weak syllables). The bolded text [insertions before strong (IS) and deletions before weak (DW)] are the categories predicted by the metrical segmentation strategy hypothesis (Cutler and Butterfield, 1992).

LBE Before a strong syllable Before a weak syllable
Insertion Target: “account for who could knock” “its harmful note abounds”
Response: “he got so he could knock” “its hard to know abounds”
 
Deletion Target: “and spoke behind her sin” “push her equal culture”
Response: “and spoke behind person” “pressure equal culture”