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Learning phonotactic constraints from brief auditory experience.

Kristine H Onishi1, Kyle E Chambers, Cynthia Fisher

  • 1Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL 61820, USA. konishi@s.psych.uiuc.edu

Cognition
|January 30, 2002
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Adults rapidly learn new speech sound rules, even complex ones based on vowel context. However, learning rules dependent on speaker voice was not observed, suggesting some sound pattern learning is easier than others.

Area of Science:

  • Psycholinguistics
  • Speech Perception
  • Language Acquisition

Background:

  • Phonotactic regularities are rules governing permissible sound sequences in a language.
  • English has specific phonotactic constraints, but other languages may have different or more complex rules.
  • Understanding how adults acquire new phonotactic rules sheds light on the flexibility of speech perception.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate if adult English speakers can learn phonotactic regularities absent in English from brief auditory exposure.
  • To determine the types of phonotactic constraints that are most readily acquired.
  • To explore the influence of adjacent vowels versus speaker voice on learning these constraints.

Main Methods:

  • Adult participants were exposed to consonant-vowel-consonant (CVC) syllables with novel phonotactic restrictions.

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  • A speeded repetition task was used to assess learning of these regularities.
  • The study examined learning of first-order (consonant position) and second-order (consonant-vowel and consonant-voice dependent) regularities.

    • Main Results:

    • Participants demonstrated rapid learning of first-order phonotactic regularities.
    • Learning of second-order regularities, where consonant position depended on the adjacent vowel, was also observed.
    • No significant learning occurred for second-order regularities contingent on the speaker's voice.

    Conclusions:

    • Adults can quickly acquire novel phonotactic constraints through listening experience.
    • The learnability of phonotactic rules depends on the nature of the contingency, with consonant-vowel dependencies being more easily acquired than consonant-voice dependencies.
    • These findings highlight the adaptability of the human speech perception system to new linguistic input.