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Finn, Amy S.; Hudson Kam, Carla L. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2015
We ask whether an adult learner's knowledge of their native language impedes statistical learning in a new language beyond just word segmentation (as previously shown). In particular, we examine the impact of native-language word-form phonotactics on learners' ability to segment words into their component morphemes and learn phonologically…
Descriptors: Morphemes, Adult Learning, Second Language Learning, Morphology (Languages)
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Price, Iya Khelm; Witzel, Naoko; Witzel, Jeffrey – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2015
This study reports 2 eye-tracking experiments investigating form interference during sentence-level silent reading. The items involved reduced and unreduced relative clauses (RCs) with words that were orthographically and phonologically similar "(injection-infection"; O+P+, Experiment 1) as well as with words that were orthographically…
Descriptors: Eye Movements, Phonology, Reading Processes, Silent Reading