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The voice of experience: Causal inference in phonotactic adaptation
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In: Laboratory Phonology: Journal of the Association for Laboratory Phonology; Vol 12, No 1 (2021); 5 ; 1868-6354 (2021)
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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. We examine the role of prior experience in phonotactic learning. Talkers who differ in their language background are more likely to vary in their phonotactic grammars than talkers who share a language variety. This predicts stronger adaptation to novel phonotactics when listeners are exposed to multiple talkers from different versus shared language backgrounds. We tested this by exposing listeners to two talkers, each of whom exhibited a different phonotactic constraint, in a recognition memory task. In Experiment 1, English listeners exposed to talkers differing in language background (English versus French) showed a greater degree of adaptation relative to cases where the talkers shared a language background (English or French). Experiment 2 found similar results when English listeners were exposed to talkers from different, non-native language backgrounds (Hindi versus Hungarian), suggesting that listeners make fine-grained distinctions between different non-native language phonotactics. These results suggest that phonotactic adaptation is flexible, but constrained by the fine-grained causal inferences listeners draw from their prior experience.
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accent adaptation; adult language learning; generalization; phonotactic learning; Phonotactics; Psycholinguistics; rational inference
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URL: https://www.journal-labphon.org/jms/article/view/267
https://doi.org/10.5334/labphon.267
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Word-initial rhotic avoidance: a typological survey
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In: Glossa: a journal of general linguistics; Vol 6, No 1 (2021); 9 ; 2397-1835 (2021)
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The role of inventory similarity and phonotactics in temporal nasalization patterns: Data from Tagalog and English ...
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Linguistic analysis, ethical practice, and quality assurance in anonymizing recordings of spoken language for deposit in digital archives
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Lexical strata and phonotactic perplexity minimization
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In: Proceedings of the Society for Computation in Linguistics (2021)
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Learning nonlocal phonotactics in Strictly Piecewise phonotactic model
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In: Proceedings of the Society for Computation in Linguistics (2021)
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Learning Interactions of Local and Non-Local Phonotactic Constraints from Positive Input
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In: Proceedings of the Society for Computation in Linguistics (2021)
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Complex onsets and coda markedness in Persian
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In: Nordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics, Vol 45, Iss 1 (2021) (2021)
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Insertion of vowels in English syllabic consonantal clusters pronounced by L1 Polish speakers
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In: Open Linguistics, Vol 7, Iss 1, Pp 331-341 (2021) (2021)
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Learning Nonlocal Phonotactics in a Strictly Piecewise Probabilistic Phonotactic Model
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In: Proceedings of the Annual Meetings on Phonology; Proceedings of the 2020 Annual Meeting on Phonology ; 2377-3324 (2021)
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Against the Law of Three Consonants in French: Evidence from Judgment Data
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In: Proceedings of the Annual Meetings on Phonology; Proceedings of the 2020 Annual Meeting on Phonology ; 2377-3324 (2021)
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Lexical Strata and Phonotactic Perplexity Minimization
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In: Proceedings of the Annual Meetings on Phonology; Proceedings of the 2020 Annual Meeting on Phonology ; 2377-3324 (2021)
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"Kansen cogoyama": Bamanankan mankankalan kelennin dɔ ; Featural foot in Bambara ; Le « pied caractéristique », une unité phonétique en bambara
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In: ISSN: 0167-6164 ; EISSN: 1613-3811 ; Journal of African Languages and Linguistics ; https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-03195237 ; Journal of African Languages and Linguistics, De Gruyter, 2020, 41 (2), pp.265-300. ⟨10.1515/jall-2020-2012⟩ ; https://www.degruyter.com/journal/key/JALL/html (2020)
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