Statistical learning of a tonal language: The influence of bilingualism and previous linguistic experience

While research shows that adults attend to both segmental and suprasegmental regularities in speech, including syllabic transitional probabilities as well as stress and intonational patterns, little is known about how statistical learning operates given input from tonal languages. In the current stu...

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Main Authors: Tianlin eWang, Jenny R. Saffran
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2014-09-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00953/full