{"pk":25500,"title":"Frequency Effects in Morpheme Segmentation","subtitle":null,"abstract":"The present study explores the effects of frequency in\nlearning to parse novel morphological patterns. In two\nexperiments, suffixes were divided into three classes: high,\nmedium and low frequency, based on the proportion of stems\nin the input that each suffix attached to (high frequency =\n12/12, medium frequency = 6/12, and low frequency = 2/12).\nIn Experiment 1, learners were better at segmenting words\ncontaining high frequency suffixes compared to low\nfrequency suffixes, even when the stems were novel. In\nExperiment 2, token frequency was controlled for across all\nthree suffix frequency classes, but learners were still better at\nsegmenting high frequency suffixes, even when words\ncontaining high frequency suffixes were less frequent. These\nresults suggest that learners are sensitive to the frequency\ndistributions of the morphemes in their language, supporting\nwork suggesting that a Zipfian distribution may be ideal for\nlanguage learning","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"statistical learning; type frequency; morpheme\nsegmentation."}],"section":"Papers","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1944b4rm","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":"2015-01-01T21:00:00+03:00","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/25500/galley/15124/download/"}]}