Rare Phonotactic Probability | Common Phonotactic Probability | |||
---|---|---|---|---|
Sparse | Dense | Sparse | Dense | |
Word Length: Proportion of Words by Number of Syllables | ||||
1-Syllable | 67% | 61% | 50% | 61% |
2-Syllable | 33% | 39% | 50% | 39% |
Canonical Structure: Proportion of Words for the Most Frequent 1-Syllable Structures | ||||
CVC | 61% | 64% | 30% | 58% |
CCVC | 28% | 29% | 20% | 5% |
CVCC | 6% | 0% | 20% | 26% |
Canonical Structure: Proportion of Words for the Most Frequent 2-Syllable Structures | ||||
CVCV | 22% | 44% | 30% | 25% |
CVCVC | 33% | 11% | 30% | 17% |
CVCCV | 22% | 11% | 20% | 25% |
Canonical Structure: Proportion of Words with a Cluster by Word Position | ||||
Word Initial | 19% | 30% | 15% | 10% |
Word Final | 4% | 4% | 15% | 19% |
Age of Consonant Acquisition in Years: Means (and Standard Deviations) by Word Position | ||||
Word Initial | 4.4 (1.6) |
5.0 (1.9) |
4.3 (1.8) |
3.9 (1.5) |
Word Final | 4.9 (1.7) |
4.9 (1.9) |
4.9 (1.8) |
5.5 (2.2) |
Statistical analysis of all of the above variables failed to detect significant differences across conditions, all Fs < 2.70 and all χ2s < 5.10, all ps > 0.10, all ηp2 s < 0.03.