Research Archive and Digital Asset Repository the Use of Phonological Features
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Constraints on statistical computations at 10 months of age: the use of phonological features. A copy can be downloaded for personal non-commercial research or study, without prior permission or charge. This item cannot be reproduced or quoted extensively from without first obtaining permission in writing from the copyright holder(s). The content must not be changed in any way or sold commercially in any format or medium without the formal permission of the copyright holders. This document is the postprint version of the journal article. Some differences between the published version and this version may remain and you are advised to consult the published version if you wish to cite from it. Abstract Recently, several studies have argued that infants capitalize on the statistical properties of natural languages to acquire the linguistic structure of their native language, but the kinds of constraints which apply to statistical computations remain largely unknown. Here we explored French-learning infants' perceptual preference for labial-coronal (LC) words over coronal-labial words (CL) words (e.g., preferring bat over tab), to determine whether this phonotactic preference is based on the acquisition of the statistical properties of the input based on a single phonological feature (i.e., place of articulation), multiple features (i.e., place and manner of articulation), or individual consonant pairs. Results from four experiments revealed that infants had a labial-coronal bias for nasal sequences (Exp. 1) and for all plosive sequences (Exp. 2 & 4) but a coronal-labial bias for all fricative sequences (Exp. 3 & 4), independently of the frequencies of individual consonant pairs. These results establish for the first time that constellations of multiple phonological features, defining broad consonant classes, constrain the early acquisition of phonotactic regularities of the native language.
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