Is that a bnik i see? testing phonotactics using word-picture matching
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چکیده
Phonotactic knowledge is typically tested using metalinguistic wordlikeness judgment tasks. We introduce a new method for testing phonotactics, where subjects are asked to match a set of pictures of novel objects with a larger set of pseudowords, only some of which are phonotactically legal. The subjects tend to pick the pseudowords that are phonotactically legal in their language and leave the illegal ones unassigned. We compare the results of the word-picture matching to a traditional rating task and show that the two tasks produce somewhat different results despite sharing some (25%) of the variance. We argue for methodological pluralism in the study of phonotactics.
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