Rapid generalization in phonotactic learning

Speakers judge novel strings to be better potential words of their language if those strings consist of sound sequences that are attested in the language. These intuitions are often generalized to new sequences that share some properties with attested ones: Participants exposed to an artificial lang...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Tal Linzen, Gillian Gallagher
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Open Library of Humanities 2017-10-01
Series:Laboratory Phonology
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Online Access:https://www.journal-labphon.org/articles/44