The influence of language-specific properties on the role of consonants and vowels in a statistical learning task of an artificial language: A cross-linguistic comparison.
| Autor: | Lador-Weizman Y; Seymour Fox School of Education, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel., Deutsch A; Seymour Fox School of Education, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel. |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Zdroj: | Quarterly journal of experimental psychology (2006) [Q J Exp Psychol (Hove)] 2024 Nov; Vol. 77 (11), pp. 2296-2311. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Feb 16. |
| DOI: | 10.1177/17470218241229721 |
| Abstrakt: | The contribution of consonants and vowels in spoken word processing has been widely investigated, and studies have found a phenomenon of a Consonantal bias (C-bias), indicating that consonants carry more weight than vowels. However, across languages, various patterns have been documented, including that of no preference or a reverse pattern of Vowel bias. A central question is how the manifestation of the C-bias is modulated by language-specific factors. This question can be addressed by cross-linguistic studies. Comparing native Hebrew and native English speakers, this study examines the relative importance of transitional probabilities between non-adjacent consonants as opposed to vowels during auditory statistical learning (SL) of an artificial language. Hebrew is interesting because its complex Semitic morphological structure has been found to play a central role in lexical access, allowing us to examine whether morphological properties can modulate the C-bias in early phases of speech perception, namely, word segmentation. As predicted, we found a significant interaction between language and consonant/vowel manipulation, with a higher performance in the consonantal condition than in the vowel condition for Hebrew speakers, namely, C-bias, and no consonant/vowel asymmetry among English speakers. We suggest that the observed interaction is morphologically anchored, indicating that phonological and morphological processes interact during early phases of auditory word perception. Competing Interests: Declaration of conflicting interestsThe author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article. |
| Databáze: | MEDLINE |
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