Speech errors reflect the phonotactic constraints in recently spoken syllables, but not in recently heard syllables. Warker, J. A., Xu, Y., Dell, G. S., & Fisher, C. Cognition, 112(1):81–96, 2009.
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Adults rapidly learn phonotactic constraints from brief production or perception experience. Three experiments asked whether this learning is modality-specific, occurring separately in production and perception, or whether perception transfers to production. Participant pairs took turns repeating syllables in which particular consonants were restricted to particular syllable positions. Speakers' errors reflected learning of the constraints present in the sequences they produced, regardless of whether their partner produced syllables with the same constraints, or opposing constraints. Although partial transfer could be induced (Experiment 3), simply hearing and encoding syllables produced by others did not affect speech production to the extent that error patterns were altered. Learning of new phonotactic constraints was predominantly restricted to the modality in which those constraints were experienced.
@Article{Warker2009,
  author      = {Warker, Jill A. and Xu, Ye and Dell, Gary S. and Fisher, Cynthia},
  journal     = {Cognition},
  title       = {Speech errors reflect the phonotactic constraints in recently spoken syllables, but not in recently heard syllables.},
  year        = {2009},
  number      = {1},
  pages       = {81--96},
  volume      = {112},
  abstract    = {Adults rapidly learn phonotactic constraints from brief production
	or perception experience. Three experiments asked whether this learning
	is modality-specific, occurring separately in production and perception,
	or whether perception transfers to production. Participant pairs
	took turns repeating syllables in which particular consonants were
	restricted to particular syllable positions. Speakers' errors reflected
	learning of the constraints present in the sequences they produced,
	regardless of whether their partner produced syllables with the same
	constraints, or opposing constraints. Although partial transfer could
	be induced (Experiment 3), simply hearing and encoding syllables
	produced by others did not affect speech production to the extent
	that error patterns were altered. Learning of new phonotactic constraints
	was predominantly restricted to the modality in which those constraints
	were experienced.},
  doi         = {10.1016/j.cognition.2009.03.009},
  keywords    = {Adult; Auditory Perception, physiology; Female; Humans; Male; Memory, physiology; Psychomotor Performance, physiology; Recognition (Psychology), physiology; Reproducibility of Results; Speech Perception, physiology; Speech, physiology; Verbal Learning; Young Adult},
  language    = {eng},
  medline-pst = {ppublish},
  pmid        = {19398099},
  school      = {Beckman Institute, University of Illinois, 405 N. Mathews Ave., Urbana, IL 61801, USA. warker@uiuc.edu},
  timestamp   = {2015.07.29},
}

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