Janet Warker

UC San Diego

Crossing the perception-production barrier:
Generalizing newly learned phonotactic constraints in production and perception

Adults can rapidly learn artificial phonotactic constraints, such as /f/ occurs at the beginning of syllables, from recent experience speaking or hearing those constraints. Previous evidence from perception studies suggests that this learning generalizes to novel syllables. I will address whether this learning generalizes to novel syllables in production using speech errors as a measure of learning. I will also address whether this learning is modality-specific, occurring separately in production and perception, or whether perception transfers to production.