The role of phonotactic principles in language processing

Ulbrich, Christiane; Alday, Phillip M.; Knaus, Johannes; Orzechowska, Paula; Wiese, Richard

The role of phonotactic principles in language processing

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2016

Authors

Ulbrich, Christiane

Alday, Phillip M.

Knaus, Johannes

Orzechowska, Paula

Wiese, Richard

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10.1080/23273798.2015.1136427

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Language, Cognition and Neuroscience ; 31 (2016), 5. - pp. 662-682. - ISSN 2327-3798. - eISSN 2327-3801

Abstract

The paper reports the results of a learnability experiment with German speakers, investigating the role of universal phonotactic constraints and language use in language processing. Making use of an artificial language paradigm, participants learned nonce words with existent and non-existent German final consonant clusters adhering to or violating sonority sequencing principles postulated for consonant clusters. Behavioural data and event-related brain potentials in response to these cluster properties were obtained twice, before and after learning word-picture-pairs. The results show (1) that learning and processing of final consonant clusters is facilitated by adherence to the sonority hierarchy, and (2) that actual existence of well- and ill-formed consonant clusters aids processing mechanisms. Thus, both implicit knowledge of universal phonotactic principles and frequency-based factors are demonstrated to play a role in the online-processing of words.

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400 Philology, Linguistics

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ULBRICH, Christiane, Phillip M. ALDAY, Johannes KNAUS, Paula ORZECHOWSKA, Richard WIESE, 2016. The role of phonotactic principles in language processing. In: Language, Cognition and Neuroscience. 31(5), pp. 662-682. ISSN 2327-3798. eISSN 2327-3801. Available under: doi: 10.1080/23273798.2015.1136427

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  doi={10.1080/23273798.2015.1136427},
  title={The role of phonotactic principles in language processing},
  number={5},
  volume={31},
  issn={2327-3798},
  journal={Language, Cognition and Neuroscience},
  pages={662--682},
  author={Ulbrich, Christiane and Alday, Phillip M. and Knaus, Johannes and Orzechowska, Paula and Wiese, Richard}
}

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