Evidence for a learning bias against saltatory phonological alternations

Running Head: BIAS AGAINST SALTATORY ALTERNATIONS 1 Evidence for a Learning Bias Against Saltatory Phonological Alternations

This study provides new experimental evidence that people learn phonological alternations in a biased way. Adult participants were exposed to alternations between phonetically dissimilar sounds (i.e., those differing in both voicing and manner, such as [p] and [v]). After learning these alternations, participants assumed, without evidence in the input, that more similar sounds (e.g., [b] and [v...

Evidence for a learning bias against saltatory phonological alternations.

This study provides new experimental evidence that people learn phonological alternations in a biased way. Adult participants were exposed to alternations between phonetically dissimilar sounds (i.e., those differing in both voicing and manner, such as [p] and [v]). After learning these alternations, participants assumed, without evidence in the input, that more similar sounds (e.g., [b] and [v...

Learning Exceptions in Phonological Alternations

The present study explores learning phonological alternations that contain exceptions. Participants were exposed to a back/round vowel harmony pattern in which a regular suffix followed harmony, varying between /e/ and /o/ depending on the back/round phonetic features of the stem, and an exceptional suffix that was always /o/ regardless of the features of the stem vowel. Participants in Experim...

Bias in Phonological Learning: Evidence from Saltation

Phonological influences in syntactic alternations