An Inductive Learning Bias toward Phonetically Driven Tonal Phonotactics

Autor/in	Chen, Tsung-Ying
Titel	An Inductive Learning Bias toward Phonetically Driven Tonal Phonotactics
Quelle	In: Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 27 (2020) 3, S.331-361 (31 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1048-9223
DOI	10.1080/10489223.2020.1769630
Schlagwörter	Grammar; Artificial Languages; Intonation; Phonology; Task Analysis; Decision Making; Testing; Linguistic Input; Feedback (Response); Learning Processes; Language Universals; Phonetics; Foreign Countries; Mandarin Chinese; Native Language; Undergraduate Students; Prediction; Taiwan + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Grammatik; Fonologie; Aufgabenanalyse; Decision-making; Entscheidungsfindung; Testdurchführung; Testen; Sprachbildung; Learning process; Lernprozess; Phonetik; Fonetik; Ausland; Vorhersage
Abstract	In two artificial grammar learning experiments, we tested the learnability of tonal phonotactics forbidding non-domain-final rising tones (NonFinalR) against the phonotactics banning non-domain-final high-level tones (NonFinalH). We propose that a firm phonetic ground drives a presumably innate inductive bias favoring NonFinalR and against NonFinalH. In Exp. I, we trained two groups of participants with an artificial language conforming to either NonFinalR or NonFinalH and tested them with the same set of novel items violating either tonal constraint in an acceptability judgment task. In two separate test sessions, NonFinalR learners demonstrated a significantly higher consistency in making correct judgments than NonFinalH learners. In Exp. II, learners participated in the same acceptability judgment task without being exposed to inputs in an a priori training session; participants had to learn from the immediate explicit feedback given to their judgments on every test item. Results suggest that only NonFinalR learners demonstrated signs of converging on the target tonal phonotactics. In addition, both experiments found that NonFinalR learners, but not NonFinalH learners, acquired the tonal phonotactics and a baseline segmental phonotactics prohibiting retroflex consonants similarly. Altogether, the experimental results support the hypothesis of an inductive learning bias toward NonFinalR and against *NonFinalH. (As Provided).
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