Latest documents http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/index/index/ Sat, 10 Jan 2009 11:08:50 +0200 Sat, 10 Jan 2009 11:08:50 +0200 http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/12454 Experimental data shows that adult learners of an artificial language with a phonotactic restriction learned this restriction better when being trained on word types (e.g. when they were presented with 80 different words twice each) than when being trained on word tokens (e.g. when presented with 40 different words four times each) (Hamann & Ernestus submitted). These findings support Pierrehumbert’s (2003) observation that phonotactic co-occurrence restrictions are formed across lexical entries, since only lexical levels of representation can be sensitive to type frequencies. Silke Hamann; Diana Apoussidou; Paul Boersma article http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/12454 Thu, 01 Oct 2009 11:08:50 +0200