TY - GEN
T1 - Implicit learning of phonotactic constraints
T2 - 33rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society: Expanding the Space of Cognitive Science, CogSci 2011
AU - Kittredge, Audrey K.
AU - Dell, Gary S.
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was supported by the NIH (HD-44458 and DC-00191) and a National Science Foundation graduate research fellowship. Thanks to Pamela Glosson for help in recording, to three anonymous reviewers for their suggestions, and to the members of the University of Illinois Phonotactic Learning Group and Language Production Lab (especially Nazbanou Nozari) for insightful discussion.
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PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - This study asked whether new linguistic patterns acquired through recent perception experience can transfer to speech production. Participants heard and spoke sequences of syllables featuring novel phonotactic constraints (e.g. /f/is always a syllable onset, /s/is always a syllable coda). Participants’ speech errors reflected weaker learning of the constraints present in the spoken sequences (e.g. /f/must be onset) when they heard sequences with the inverse constraints (e.g. /f/must be coda), suggesting that the constraints experienced in perception interfered with learning in production. The results did not depend on the presence of a shared orthographic code in perception and production trials, suggesting that direct transfer between heard speech and produced speech is possible, perhaps through prediction via inner speech. Further work is needed to determine the exact mechanism supporting inter-modality transfer of phonological generalizations.
AB - This study asked whether new linguistic patterns acquired through recent perception experience can transfer to speech production. Participants heard and spoke sequences of syllables featuring novel phonotactic constraints (e.g. /f/is always a syllable onset, /s/is always a syllable coda). Participants’ speech errors reflected weaker learning of the constraints present in the spoken sequences (e.g. /f/must be onset) when they heard sequences with the inverse constraints (e.g. /f/must be coda), suggesting that the constraints experienced in perception interfered with learning in production. The results did not depend on the presence of a shared orthographic code in perception and production trials, suggesting that direct transfer between heard speech and produced speech is possible, perhaps through prediction via inner speech. Further work is needed to determine the exact mechanism supporting inter-modality transfer of phonological generalizations.
KW - implicit learning
KW - orthography
KW - phonotactic learning
KW - prediction
KW - transfer of learning
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84961325550
T3 - Expanding the Space of Cognitive Science - Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2011
SP - 2679
EP - 2684
BT - Expanding the Space of Cognitive Science - Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2011
A2 - Carlson, Laura
A2 - Hoelscher, Christoph
A2 - Shipley, Thomas F.
PB - The Cognitive Science Society
Y2 - 20 July 2011 through 23 July 2011
ER -