We replicated Experiment 1 of Finn & Hudson Kam (2008) The curse of knowledge: First language knowledge impairs adult learners’ use of novel statistics for word segmentation, Cognition, 108(2), 477-499. This is part of a larger project investigating the reproducibility and replicability of adult statistical word segmentation studies. We failed to replicate the key result: worse learning of statistically-defined words that violate phonotactic patterns of the speakers’ native language.
We replicated Experiment 1 of Bonatti, Peña, Nespor, & Mehlor (2005) Linguistic constraints on statistical computations: The role of consonants and vowels in continuous speech processing, Psychological Science, 16(6), 451-459. This is part of a larger project investigating the reproducibility and replicability of adult statistical word segmentation studies. We replicated the study with both French-speaking subjects (as in the original) and English-speaking subjects. In both cases, we found a small but reliable effect, with subjects successfully tracking consonant transition probabilities. This replicates the findings of the original study.
We replicated Experiment 3 of Finn & Hudson Kam (2008) The curse of knowledge: First language knowledge impairs adult learners' use of novel statistics for word segmentation, Cognition, 108(2), 477-499. This is part of a larger project investigating the reproducibility and replicability of adult statistical word segmentation studies. We failed to replicate the key result: worse learning of statistically-defined words that violate phonotactic patterns of the speakers' native language.
We replicated Exp. 1 of Saffran, Newport, & Aslin (1996) Word segmentation: The role of distributional cues, Journal of Memory and Language, 35, 606-621. This is the fifth replication of this experiment as part of a larger project investigating the reproducibility and replicability of adult statistical word segmentation studies. It differs from prior replications in using a different study pool (Prolific.ac vs. Amazon Mechanical Turk). However, the results were similar to other replications: we replicated the existence of statistical word segmentation, but did not replicate many of the observed moderators.
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