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Native English speakers learned subtle sound duration differences in new words. However, they could not consciously identify these learned temporal patterns, suggesting implicit lexical learning.

Keywords:

consonant duration fake geminates implicit phonetic imitation relative timing

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Area of Science:

Psycholinguistics
Phonetics
Language Acquisition

Background:

Native speakers often implicitly acquire phonological patterns.
The role of lexical specificity in learning non-contrastive phonetic features is debated.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate the implicit learning of non-contrastive segmental length in American English speakers.
To determine if learned temporal patterns are explicitly identifiable.

Main Methods:

Participants (children and adults) reproduced nonce words with varying segmental durations.
A same/different judgment task assessed explicit identification of the duration contrast.

Main Results:

Participants reliably reproduced the segmental length distinction.
Explicit identification of the duration contrast was not achieved.

Conclusions:

Grammatically irrelevant, lexically specific temporal patterns can be learned implicitly.
Learned phonetic patterns are represented in the lexicon, even without explicit awareness.