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By using a familiarization-preference procedure, the current study investigated the statistical learning of two morphological principles without providing any phonological cues. A series of experiments was conducted by varying learning duration. After a relatively short period of exposure to the learning stimuli, participants firstly learned the co-occurrence regularity; in comparison, the learning of graphic position required more exposure to the learning stimuli. These findings suggest that these two morphological principles could be acquired without phonological cues, but they were not equally easy to learn.
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Wu, Q., Fang, X., Chen, Q., Li, Y., Deng, Y. (2011). The Learning of Morphological Principles: A Statistical Learning Study on a System of Artificial Scripts. In: Lee, G. (eds) Advances in Automation and Robotics, Vol.1. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 122. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-25553-3_25
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