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Possible Word Constraint
Ensures that the speech input is exhaustively segmented into words without leaving any residual sounds.

Example:
It is more difficult for English listeners to detect the real word "see" when they hear the nonsense word /siʃ/ than when they hear the nonsense word /siʃʌb/ because the residue "sh" in the first case is not a possible word of English, but the residue "shub" in the second case is a possible word.

Topic: Spoken word recognition