Homophonic effect when listening to word combinations

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Homophonic effect when listening to word combinations

Postby scrambledeggs » Fri Aug 25, 2017 9:57 pm

Is there some term or trick to listening difficulty when I sort of "jump to conclusion" on the word combination I think I heard? For instance when hearing the Spanish lo he leído hace poco I thought I heard love he ido hace poco .

I mean more than just the same phenome, like Si and sí, but when the words combine to make the effect ambiguous, like how Les aplaudía can sound like "lesa plaudía". Is there term for this? Sandhi?
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Re: Homophonic effect when listening to word combinations

Postby BalancingAct » Fri Aug 25, 2017 10:52 pm

Is there term for this?

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Re: Homophonic effect when listening to word combinations

Postby Querneus » Fri Aug 25, 2017 11:08 pm

scrambledeggs wrote:Is there some term or trick to listening difficulty when I sort of "jump to conclusion" on the word combination I think I heard? For instance when hearing the Spanish lo he leído hace poco I thought I heard love he ido hace poco .

I mean more than just the same phenome, like Si and sí, but when the words combine to make the effect ambiguous, like how Les aplaudía can sound like "lesa plaudía". Is there term for this? Sandhi?

"Misparsing" probably. Definitely not "sandhi".
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Re: Homophonic effect when listening to word combinations

Postby reineke » Sat Aug 26, 2017 2:05 am

Speech segmentation errors that sometimes may lead to lexical reinterpretation: l'abondance > la bondance. La abundancia > La bundancia. Misperception of coarticulation.
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Re: Homophonic effect when listening to word combinations

Postby scrambledeggs » Tue Sep 05, 2017 2:47 pm

Ok found it

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondegreen

Example from English

Surely Good Mrs. Murphy shall follow me all the days of my life ("Surely goodness and mercy…" from Psalm 23)
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Re: Homophonic effect when listening to word combinations

Postby tastyonions » Tue Sep 05, 2017 3:05 pm

French is wonderful for these.

On a donné l'arc à Pierre et il l'a bandé.

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