The timecourse of phonotactic learning

The Timecourse of Generalization in Phonotactic Learning

Talker variation in phonotactic learning 1 Running head: TALKER VARIATION IN PHONOTACTIC LEARNING Talker variation aids young infants’ phonotactic learning

We investigated how talker variability impacts novel phonological pattern learning in 4and 11-month-olds. Both age groups were better able to discriminate between legal and illegal phonotactic strings after exposure to multiple talkers than a single talker. It is argued that these data may be best accounted for by hybrid models including linguistic representations that abstract from talker iden...

Learning new words: phonotactic probability in language development.

Though the influences of syntactic and semantic regularity on novel word learning are well documented, considerably less is known about the influence of phonological regularities on lexical acquisition. The influence of phonotactic probability, a measure of the likelihood of occurrence of a sound sequence, on novel word learning is investigated in this study. Thirty-four typically developing ch...

Inductive Learning of Phonotactic Patterns

of the Dissertation Inductive Learning of Phonotactic Patterns

The emerging lexicon of children with phonological delays: phonotactic constraints and probability in acquisition.

The effects of phonotactic constraints (i.e., the status of a sound as correctly or incorrectly articulated) and phonotactic probability (i.e., the likelihood of a sound sequence) on lexical acquisition have been investigated independently. This study investigated the interactive influence of phonotactic constraints and phonotactic probability on lexical acquisition in 3 groups of children: chi...