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    "pk": 25499,
    "title": "Learning Exceptions in Phonological Alternations",
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    "abstract": "The present study explores learning phonological alternations\nthat contain exceptions. Participants were exposed to a\nback/round vowel harmony pattern in which a regular suffix\nfollowed harmony, varying between /e/ and /o/ depending on\nthe back/round phonetic features of the stem, and an\nexceptional suffix that was always /o/ regardless of the\nfeatures of the stem vowel. Participants in Experiment 1\nlearned the behavior of both suffixes, but performance for the\nnon-alternating suffix was higher when the suffix happened to\nadhere to vowel harmony. In Experiment 2, participants were\nexposed only to the same suffixes as Experiment 1, but the\nnon-alternating suffix only appeared in harmonic contexts,\ncreating ambiguity between exceptionality and alternation.\nParticipants only correctly selected the non-alternating suffix\nwhen it appeared in a harmonic context. This suggests that\nlearners are biased towards alternating harmony patterns, but\nrequire concrete evidence of non-alternation to learn the nonalternating\nsuffix.",
    "language": "eng",
    "license": {
        "name": "",
        "short_name": "",
        "text": null,
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    },
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "statistical learning; vowel harmony; learning\nbiases; exceptions."
        }
    ],
    "section": "Papers",
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    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5p94x4r8",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Sara",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Finley",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Department of Psychology, Pacific Lutheran University",
            "department": ""
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2015-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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