Novel stress phonotactics are learnable by English speakers: Novel tone phonotactics are not.

Speech 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. Constraints in which the context...

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Published in:	Memory & Cognition Vol. 48; no. 2; pp. 176 - 188
Main Authors:	Bian, Yuan, Dell, Gary S.
Format:	Article
Published:	Springer Nature Feb2020
Subjects:	Linguistics Phonetics Speech evaluation Vowels Phonological awareness
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost