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Word learning, phonological short-term memory, phonotactic probability and long-term memory: towards an integrated framework
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Word learning, phonological short-term memory, phonotactic probability and long-term memory: towards an integrated framework

Prahlad Gupta and Jamie Tisdale
Philosophical transactions. Biological sciences, Vol.364(1536), pp.3755-3771
12/27/2009
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2009.0132
PMCID: PMC2846314
PMID: 19933144
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Abstract

Word learning is studied in a multitude of ways, and it is often not clear what the relationship is between different phenomena. In this article, we begin by outlining a very simple functional framework that despite its simplicity can serve as a useful organizing scheme for thinking about various types of studies of word learning. We then review a number of themes that in recent years have emerged as important topics in the study of word learning, and relate them to the functional framework, noting nevertheless that these topics have tended to be somewhat separate areas of study. In the third part of the article, we describe a recent computational model and discuss how it offers a framework that can integrate and relate these various topics in word learning to each other. We conclude that issues that have typically been studied as separate topics can perhaps more fruitfully be thought of as closely integrated, with the present framework offering several suggestions about the nature of such integration.
 Humans Memory, Short-Term Models, Theoretical Phonetics Serial Learning Verbal Learning

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