title: The metamorphosis of the statistical segmentation output: lexicalization during artificial language learning.
abstract: This study combined artificial language learning (ALL) with conventional experimental techniques to test whether statistical speech segmentation outputs are integrated into adult listeners' mental lexicon. Lexicalization was assessed through inhibitory effects of novel neighbors (created by the parsing process) on auditory lexical decisions to real words. Both immediately after familiarization and post-one week, ALL outputs were lexicalized only when the cues available during familiarization (transitional probabilities and wordlikeness) suggested the same parsing (Experiments 1 and 3). No lexicalization effect occurred with incongruent cues (Experiments 2 and 4). Yet, ALL differed from chance, suggesting a dissociation between item knowledge and lexicalization. Similarly contrasted results were found when frequency of occurrence of the stimuli was equated during familiarization (Experiments 3 and 4). Our findings thus indicate that ALL outputs may be lexicalized as far as the segmentation cues are congruent, and that this process cannot be accounted for by raw frequency.
authors: Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação da Universidade de Lisboa, Alameda da Universidade, Lisbon, Portugal.
authors: Tânia
authors: T
authors: Fernandes
authors: Régine
authors: R
authors: Kolinsky
authors: Paulo
authors: P
authors: Ventura
mesh_terms: D000161:Acoustic Stimulation; D000328:Adult; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D003463:Cues; D004193:Discrimination Learning; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D007804:Language Development; D007858:Learning / Q000502:physiology*; D011930:Reaction Time; D021641:Recognition, Psychology