Table 1.

Demonstration of how CLASSIC’s learning progresses when the utterance “Not that big” appears four times in the input. The examples show learning occurring at every opportunity (i.e., a learning rate of 1.00) whereas in reality the learning rate is set to .50

Utterance	Recoded utterance	Chunks learned
n ɒ t / ð æ t / b ɪ g	n, ɒ, t / ð, æ, t / b, ɪ, g	nɒ, ɒt / ðæ, æt / bɪ, ɪg
n ɒ t / ð æ t / b ɪ g	nɒ, t / ðæ, t / bɪ, g	nɒt / ðæt / bɪg
n ɒ t / ð æ t / b ɪ g	nɒt / ðæt / bɪg	nɒt ðæt, ðæt bɪg
n ɒ t / ð æ t / b ɪ g	nɒt ðæt, bɪg	nɒt ðæt bɪg