Phonotactic constraints are language-specific patterns in the sequencing of speech sounds. Are these constraints represented at the syllable level (ng cannot begin syllables in English) or at the word level (ng cannot begin words)? In a continuous recognition-memory task, participants more often falsely recognized novel test items that followed than violated the training constraints, whether training and test items matched in word structure (one or two syllables) or position of restricted consonants (word-edge or word-medial position). E.g., learning that ps are onsets and fs codas, participants generalized from pef (one syllable) to putvif (two syllables), and from putvif (word-edge positions) to bufpak (word-medial positions). These results suggest that newly-learned phonotactic constraints are represented at the syllable level. The syllable is a representational unit available and spontaneously used when learning speech-sound constraints. In the current experiments, an onset is an onset and a coda a coda, regardless of word structure or word position.

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一个开始就是一个开始：来自新学习的语音约束抽象的证据

语音约束是语音排序中特定于语言的模式。这些限制是在音节级别（英语中 ng 不能以音节开头）还是在单词级别（ng 不能以单词开头）表示？在连续的识别记忆任务中，参与者更经常错误地识别出新的测试项目而不是违反训练约束，无论训练和测试项目在单词结构（一个或两个音节）或限制辅音的位置（单词边缘或单词- 中间位置）。例如，学习到 ps 是开始和 fs 尾声，参与者从 pef（一个音节）概括为 putvif（两个音节），从 putvif（词边缘位置）到 bufpak（词中间位置）。这些结果表明新学习的语音约束在音节级别表示。音节是学习语音-声音约束时可用和自发使用的表示单元。在当前的实验中，无论单词结构或单词位置如何，开头都是开头，结尾是结尾。