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Semi-supervised Phonetic Category Learning: Does Word-level Information Enhance the Efficacy of Distributional Learning? Cover

Semi-supervised Phonetic Category Learning: Does Word-level Information Enhance the Efficacy of Distributional Learning?

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|Aug 2014

Figures & Tables

Figure 1

Vowels by first and second formant presented during the post-test (a), the training (b), and the pre-test (c).

Figure 2

Referent pictures paired with the non-words that were presented during training.

Table 1

Exemplary post-test response pattern.

Categorization ResponsePhonetic Category
Low F2High F2
Left6105
Right13839
Figure 3

Chance distribution of percentage of correct responses to pre-test (a) and post-test stimuli (b). Dashed lines indicate top 5% threshold.

Figure 4

Post-test performance in percentage correct across condition based (a) all subjects (N = 36); (b) subjects that did not use F2 systematically on the pre-test (N = 20); and (c) subjects that performed at chance, but not uniformly, during the pre-test (N = 9).

Table 2

Number of subjects in each condition who performed better than chance in the post-test.

Difference from ChanceCondition
AlignedControl
Yes1717
No11
Figure 5

Pre-test response patterns of examplary subjects who were classified as (a) “F2”, (b) “Chance”, or (c) “Uniform”.

Table 3

Crosstabulation of Condition and Pre-test Response Pattern.

Experimental ConditionPre-test Response Pattern
‘F’‘Chance’‘Uniform’
Aligned855
Control846
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/jeps.ce | Journal eISSN: 2222-6931
Language: English
Page range: 36 - 45
Published on: Aug 22, 2014
Published by: Ubiquity Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services

© 2014 Till Poppels, Daniel Swingley, published by Ubiquity Press
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.