Table 2.
Experimental design. For ease of explanation, examples are drawn from the aX, Yb grammar. Half of the participants heard the alternate bX, Ya grammar. Lower case letters are each represented by a single CV nonword. Uppercase letters indicate sets of nonwords, where X elements are CVC words and Y elements are CVCCV words. The XNew and YNew indicate items that were not heard previously, but conformed in syllable composition to X and Y items used in the familiarization phase.
| Experimental Phase | Item Type | Set Size | String | Number of Strings | Repetition of Each String* | Examples |
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| Familiarization | aX, Yb grammar | 3 | aX | 3 | 16 | poe jeb ritva koo |
| Yb | 3 | 16 | ||||
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| 24 | aX | 24 | 2 | |||
| Yb | 24 | 2 | ||||
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| Test | Items heard during training | 3 | aX | 3 | 2 | poe jeb ritva koo |
| Yb | 3 | 2 | ||||
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| 24 | aX | 3 | 2 | |||
| Yb | 3 | 2 | ||||
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| Items with co- occurrence violations | 3 | aY | 3 | 2 | poe ritva jeb koo | |
| Xb | 3 | 2 | ||||
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| 24 | aY | 3 | 2 | |||
| Xb | 3 | 2 | ||||
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| Items with linear order violations | 3 | Xa | 3 | 2 | jeb poe koo ritva | |
| bY | 3 | 2 | ||||
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| 24 | Xa | 3 | 2 | |||
| bY | 3 | 2 | ||||
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| Correct Generalization items | 3 | aXNew | 3 | 2 | poe sul valsa koo | |
| YNewb | 3 | 2 | ||||
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| 24 | aXNew | 3 | 2 | |||
| YNewb | 3 | 2 | ||||
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| Incorrect generalization items with co- occurrence violations | 3 | aYNew | 3 | 2 | poe valsa sul koo | |
| XNewb | 3 | 2 | ||||
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| 24 | aYNew | 3 | 2 | |||
| XNewb | 3 | 2 | ||||
*
Number of times each exemplar of the string type was heard during the experiment.