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    "title": "The Impact of Similar Place Avoidance on Novel Word Learning in Adults",
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    "abstract": "Similar Place Avoidance (SPA) is the cross-linguistic tendency whereby languages avoid transvocalic consonants with the same place of articulation within a word. In this study, we examine if SPA is the result of learning biases against words where the consonants share a place of articulation. In two experiments we examine whether adults show a learning difference between place-disagreeing novel words (e.g. [tip]) and place-agreeing novel words (e.g. [tid], where [t] and [d] are coronal). Participants are taught novel words and are then tested in an object-mapping or lexical decision task. We measure participants' learning performance based on accuracy and reaction times. Results indicate that, while accuracy is comparable for place-agreeing and place-disagreeing words in both tasks, participants' lexical decision responses are generally slower for place-agreeing words. These results suggest that participants experience processing difficulties when accessing newly-formed representations of place-agreeing words, which may contribute to the existence of SPA.",
    "language": "eng",
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    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "Linguistics; Learning; Phonology"
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    "section": "Papers with Poster Presentation",
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        {
            "first_name": "Annie",
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            "last_name": "Holtz",
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            "institution": "The University of Edinburgh",
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            "last_name": "Smith",
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            "first_name": "Mitsuhiko",
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            "last_name": "Ota",
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            "institution": "University of Edinburgh",
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    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2025-01-01T10:00:00-08:00",
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