English speakers' sensitivity to phonotactic patterns

Paper

This paper was originally presented at the Fifth Conference on Laboratory Phonology and is published in:

Treiman, R., Kessler, B., Knewasser, S., Tincoff, R., & Bowman, M. (2000.) English speakers' sensitivity to phonotactic patterns. In M. B. Broe and J. Pierrehumbert (Eds.), Papers in Laboratory Phonology V: Acquisition and the Lexicon (p. 269-282). Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0521643635.

An unofficial copy of the paper is available in PDF format.

Data files

This Web page shows the data upon which we based our selection of syllable components for the experimental stimuli. It also contains further statistical analysis of the results of Experiment 1.

• The word list (monomorphemic monosyllables from Random House 2nd ed.)
• Frequencies of segments and pairs.
• Frequencies of codas.
• Deviations in frequency of the rimes.
• Statistical analysis of the results.

Webster: Brett Kessler

Last change 2004-08-27.