Transitional probabilities and positional frequency phonotactics in a hierarchical model of speech segmentation.
The present study explored the influence of a new metrics of phonotactics on adults' use of transitional probabilities to segment artificial languages. We exposed French native adults to continuous streams of trisyllabic nonsense words. High-frequency words had either high or low congruence with Fre...
| Publicado en: | Memory & Cognition Vol. 39; no. 6; pp. 1085 - 1094 |
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Aug2011
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