ABSTRACT
To determine the syllabification rules applied by listeners when presented with
different types of intervocalic clusters, 13 4- to 5-year-old preliterate French-speaking
children were tested using two tasks of disyllabic words segmentation: a repetition
task of the beginning or the end of words, and a tapping task. Both tasks show
comparable results. Data were compared to the segmentation solutions predicted
by 5 different syllabification rules proposed by phonologists. It was shown
that two of the tested algorithms fit these results. The language-specificity
of children's syllabification rules is discussed.