This study investigates whether alternation learning is facilitated by a matching phonotactic generalization. In a series of artificial grammar learning experiments, English learners were …
By around 12 months, infants have well-specified phonetic representations for the nouns they understand, for instance looking less at a car upon hearing 'cur'than 'car'(Swingley and …
In this thesis, I compare phonological patterns that are fully general across a language (which apply predictably based on sound, without exception) to phonological patterns that …
Understanding how native speakers acquire the phonological patterns in their language is a key task for the field of phonology. Numerous studies have suggested that phonological …
Introduction to Korean as a Second Language introduces the basic linguistic make-up of Korean and provides basic knowledge of second language acquisition and up-to-date …
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Phonological alternations often happen to conform to phonotactic regularities, from which a single mechanism for phonotactics and alternations has been claimed. We note, however …
In this dissertation, I establish a research program that uses computational modeling as a testbed for theories of phonological learning. This dissertation focuses on a fundamental …