Tier-adjacency is not a necessary condition for learning phonotactic dependencies

Language and Cognitive Processes

Volumn 27, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1425-1432

  Koo, Hahn ^a   Callahan, Lydia ^a  

^a SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Nonadjacent dependency; Phonotactic learning; Statistical learning

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONSONANT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONOTACTIC LEARNING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND;

EID: 84868546399     PISSN: 01690965     EISSN: 14640732     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01690965.2011.603933     Document Type: Article

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