A Vowel Is a Vowel: Generalizing Newly Learned Phonotactic Constraints to New Contexts

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 821-828

  Chambers, Kyle E ^a   Onishi, Kristine H ^b   Fisher, Cynthia ^c  

^a GUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS COLLEGE   (United States)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

generalization; phonological development; phonotactic learning; speech perception; statistical learning

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PHONETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; FEMALE; GENERALIZATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PHONETICS; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 77953162492     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0018991     Document Type: Article

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