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phonotactic frequency  

Definition

  • Frequency of occurrence of a phoneme combination in a language.

Broader concept

Bibliographic citation(s)

  • • Gathercole, S. E., Frankish, C. R., Pickering, S. J., & Peaker, S. (1999). Phonotactic influences on short-term memory. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 25(1), 84‑95. https://doi.org/10.1037/0278-7393.25.1.84

    [Study type: empirical study / Access: closed]

Creator

  • Frank Arnould

Measure of

Editorial note

  • For example, Gathercole et al. (1999) showed in 7- to 8-year-olds that short-term serial recall is better for non-words containing frequent phoneme combinations in English than for less frequent combinations.

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URI

http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/P66-KFSPKCGS-B

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