Exploring Substantive Bias Through Incidental Phonological Learning: Accuracy and Conscious Status of the Resultant Knowledge
Published online on July 27, 2026
Abstract
Language and Speech, Ahead of Print.
In phonological learning, the substantive bias hypothesis holds that phonetically natural patterns (e.g., vowel harmony) are more learnable than unnatural ones (e.g., vowel disharmony). However, many empirical studies have failed to find evidence for this ...
In phonological learning, the substantive bias hypothesis holds that phonetically natural patterns (e.g., vowel harmony) are more learnable than unnatural ones (e.g., vowel disharmony). However, many empirical studies have failed to find evidence for this ...