What Makes a Sound Pattern Learnable? An Investigation of the Cognitive Limitations of Pattern Learning
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Principal Investigator
Dr LAI Yee King Regine
Area of Research Project
Language Education, Literature and Linguistics
Project Period
From 01/2017 To 12/2019
Objectives
To examine whether computational characteristics constitute an integral factor that can determine the learnability of a sound sequence along with other factors that have been identified by the field (e.g. phonetic naturalness).
To test whether adults can learn a plausible, but unattested phonological pattern (accidental gap).
To explore whether it is necessarily true that if adults can learn a pattern in a linguistic domain, the same pattern can also be learned in a non-linguistic domain.
To critically evaluate the domain-general and domain-specific hypotheses.
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Summary of Findings
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Biography of Principal Investigator
Dr Lai Yee King Regine is an Assistant Professor of Department of Linguistics and Modern Language Studies at The Education University of Hong Kong.
