Year: 2022
Type: preprint
Abstract: We replicated Experiment 1 of Finn & Hudson Kam (2008) The curse of knowledge: First language knowledge impairs adult learners’ use of novel statistics for word segmentation, Cognition, 108(2), 477-499. This is part of a larger project investigating the reproducibility and replicability of adult statistical word segmentation studies. We failed to replicate the key result: worse learning of statistically-defined words that violate phonotactic patterns of the speakers’ native language.
Authors: Wesley Ricketts, Joshua K. Hartshorne
Institution: Boston College
Language: English
Subfield: Developmental and Educational Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W4283705318