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The voice of experience: Causal inference in phonotactic adaptation
Laboratory Phonology, 2021 Successfully grappling with widespread linguistic variation requires listeners to adapt to systematic variation in the environment while discarding incidental variation, based on listeners’ prior experience.
Matthew Goldrick, Thomas Denby
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Spontaneous Strategies Used During Novel Word Learning
Language Learning, Volume 76, Issue 2, Page 357-390, June 2026.Abstract This online study examined spontaneous strategies of English‐speaking adults during associative word learning, the relationship of these strategies with learning outcomes and within‐task evolution of strategy use. Participants were to learn to name 14 object–pseudoword pairs across five successive encoding/recall blocks, followed by delayed ...
Matti Laine +4 more
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The UCI Phonotactic Calculator: An online tool for computing phonotactic metrics
Behavior Research MethodsAbstract This paper presents the UCI Phonotactic Calculator (UCIPC), a new online tool for quantifying the occurrence of segments and segment sequences in a corpus. This tool has several advantages compared to existing tools: it allows users to supply their own training data, meaning it can be applied to any language for which a corpus is ...
Connor Mayer, Arya Kondur, Megha Sundara
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Frontiers in PsychologyIntroductionExpectations derived from knowledge about the likelihood of different phoneme sequences are an effective cognitive mechanism to make the listening process more efficient. In addition to language-specific distributions, universal principles of
Sophia Wulfert +5 more
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Language comprehension and the rhythm of perception
Mind &Language, Volume 41, Issue 3, Page 402-424, June 2026.It is widely agreed that language understanding has a distinctive phenomenology, as illustrated by phenomenal contrast cases. Yet it remains unclear how to account for the perceptual phenomenology of language experience. I advance a rhythmic account, which explains this phenomenology in terms of changes in the rhythm of sensory capacities in both ...
Alfredo Vernazzani
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Representations for Phonotactic Learning in Infancy [PDF]
Language Learning and Development, 2011 Infants rapidly learn novel phonotactic constraints from brief listening experience. Four experiments explored the nature of the representations underlying this learning. 16.5- and 10.5-month-old infants heard training syllables in which particular consonants were restricted to particular syllable positions (first-order constraints) or to syllable ...
Kyle E, Chambers +2 more
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Investigating the universality of consonant and vowel co-occurrence restrictions
GlossaCertain phonotactic constraints on the co-occurrence of segments appear to be much more common across the world’s languages than others. In many languages, similar consonant co-occurrence is restricted through Obligatory Contour Principle (OCP) effects ...
Amanda Kaitlin Doucette +3 more
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Iconicity correlated with vowel harmony in Korean ideophones
Laboratory Phonology, 2018 This paper aims to establish connections between the following phenomena pertaining to Korean ideophonic vowel harmony: A set of vowel patterns classified (phonologically) as ‘harmonic,’ ‘neutral,’ and ‘disharmonic’; a set of ideophones classified ...
Nahyun Kwon
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Autism Research, Volume 19, Issue 5, May 2026.ABSTRACT Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental condition characterized by persistent differences in social communication and interaction, as well as restricted and repetitive patterns of behavior, interests, or activities. Language difficulties are common in autism and can affect multiple domains, including phonology, morphology ...
Dilber Kaçar Kütükçü +2 more
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Novel stress phonotactics are learnable by English speakers: Novel tone phonotactics are not [PDF]
Memory & Cognition, 2019 AbstractSpeech errors are sensitive to newly learned phonotactic constraints. For example, if speakers produce strings of syllables in which /f/ is an onset if the vowel is /æ/, but a coda if the vowel is /I/, their slips will respect that constraint after a period of sleep.
Bian, Yuan, Dell, Gary S
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