@Article{Finn2008,
  author   = {Amy S Finn and Carla L {Hudson Kam}},
  journal  = {Cognition},
  title    = {The curse of knowledge: first language knowledge impairs adult learners' use of novel statistics for word segmentation.},
  year     = {2008},
  number   = {2},
  pages    = {477-99},
  volume   = {108},
  abstract = {We investigated whether adult learners' knowledge of phonotactic restrictions
	on word forms from their first language impacts their ability to
	use statistical information to segment words in a novel language.
	Adults were exposed to a speech stream where English phonotactics
	and phoneme co-occurrence information conflicted. A control where
	these did not conflict was also run. Participants chose between words
	defined by novel statistics and words that are phonotactically possible
	in English, but had much lower phoneme contingencies. Control participants
	selected words defined by statistics while experimental participants
	did not. This result held up with increases in exposure and when
	segmentation was aided by telling participants a word prior to exposure.
	It was not the case that participants simply preferred English-sounding
	words, however, when the stimuli contained very short pauses, participants
	were able to learn the novel words despite the fact that they violated
	English phonotactics. Results suggest that prior linguistic knowledge
	can interfere with learners' abilities to segment words from running
	speech using purely statistical cues at initial exposure.},
  doi      = {10.1016/j.cognition.2008.04.002},
  keywords = {Adult, Cognition, Female, Humans, Knowledge, Language, Learning, Linguistics, Male, Phonetics, Verbal Learning, 18533142},
}

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