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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"nonce words"”.
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Does a Neural Network Inflect Spanish Verbs in a Human-Like Way?
… adults apply the rules of productivity to nonce words; and, by extension, whether they attend to the same rules of productivity that children do. And finally, the third experiment was used to determine whether a neural network makes human-like errors that resemble those made by human …
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THE EFFECTS OF NATIVE LANGUAGE EXPERIENCE ON THE PHONOLOGICAL PERCEPTION OF COMPLEX LABIAL-VELAR STOPS
… oddity task. Participants listened to three VCV nonce words embedded in a carrier phrase and identified the odd item or chose whether they were the same. The intervocalic target contrasts were [gb]-[g] and [gb]-[b], [kp]-[k] and [kp]-[p] for place of articulation, and [p]-[b], [k]-[g], and …
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Cognitive and communicative pressures in natural language
Why do languages have the words they do instead of some other set of words? In the first part of this thesis, I argue that cognitive and communicative demands strongly influence the structure of the lexicons of natural languages. It is known that words in natural language are distributed such that …
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Sound perception and production in a foreign language
… GFL learners in perceiving and producing German words more correctly. The discrimination experiment with manipulated nonce words showed that Polish GFL learners detect pure length differences in German vowels less accurately than German native speakers, while this was not the case for pure …
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Learning novel vowel contrasts: experimental methods in classroom applications
… coda consonant. Training material consisted of nonce word minimal pairs used to mitigate task complexity related to lexical access and to circumvent the effects of frequency and top-down processing. Participants completed pre- and post- tests on discriminating vowels in real word minimal pairs …