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Area of Science:

  • Linguistics
  • Psycholinguistics
  • Cognitive Science

Background:

  • Traditional phonotactic models (bigram, trigram) capture local dependencies.
  • These models predict local interactions are easier to learn than long-distance ones.
  • Linguistic research has identified long-distance phonotactic patterns in various languages.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the learnability of long-distance phonotactic patterns.
  • To provide empirical support for alternative phonotactic models that capture unbounded dependencies.
  • To test whether learning of phonological patterns is sensitive to the distance between elements.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized an artificial grammar learning paradigm.
  • Exposed participants to a long-distance consonant-harmony pattern in a controlled experiment.
  • The pattern involved a five-syllable word where the initial consonant influenced a distant suffix.

Main Results:

  • Participants successfully learned the artificial long-distance consonant-harmony pattern.
  • Learning occurred despite the significant distance between the triggering consonant and the target suffix.
  • This indicates that the perceived distance between elements does not impede the learning of phonological patterns.

Conclusions:

  • Supports alternative phonotactic models over traditional flat-structured models for long-distance dependencies.
  • Demonstrates that humans can learn phonological patterns irrespective of the distance between the relevant linguistic elements.
  • Phonological pattern acquisition is not inherently constrained by the physical distance between sounds.