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J Mem Lang. 2016 Aug;89:8-22. doi: 10.1016/j.jml.2015.08.001. Epub 2015 Oct 12.

Learning to speak by listening: Transfer of phonotactics from perception to production.

Journal of memory and language

Audrey K Kittredge, Gary S Dell

Affiliations

  1. Psychology Department, Carnegie Mellon University, 5000 Forbes Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA, 1-607-351-7518.
  2. Beckman Institute, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 405 N. Matthews Ave, Urbana, IL 61801, USA.

PMID: 27840556 PMCID: PMC5102624 DOI: 10.1016/j.jml.2015.08.001

Abstract

The language production and perception systems rapidly learn novel phonotactic constraints. In production, for example, producing syllables in which /f/ is restricted to onset position (e.g. as /h/ is in English) causes one's speech errors to mirror that restriction. We asked whether or not perceptual experience of a novel phonotactic distribution transfers to production. In three experiments, participants alternated hearing and producing strings of syllables. In the

Keywords: implicit learning; language perception; language production; phonotactics; speech errors; transfer of learning

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