LING 333 Chapter Notes - Chapter assignment : Markov Chain
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Pelucci 2009 paper can be matched for frequency in the speech. Importantly, it would not need to be complete or fully accurate; infants would merely need to seg? ment a subset of word-like units from which to glean other language- specific regularities. One type of statistical regularity available to infant learners is the transitional probability (tp) between syllable sequences. Tp, also termed condiitional probability, is the probability of one event (e. g. , of one syllable) given the occurrence of another event. The primary evidence supporting the existence of statistical learning mechanisms in infants comes from studies employ? ing artificial language materials. Infants are typi? cally exposed to a synthetically produced speech stream, without pauses or other acoustic cues to word boundaries. Infants are then tested on their ability to stream. we designed experiment 1 to determine whether infants could segment anything at all from a brief exposure to.
