[41] reported a positive correlation between target looking and receptive vocabulary size for the phonotactically legal words, and a marginally significant negative correlation for phonotactically illegal words, a pattern which indicates that increasing knowledge about word forms in the native language is related to 17–20-month-old infants’ consideration of a constrained set of sound sequences as possible new words.
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A "bat" is easier to learn than a "tab": effects of relative phonotactic frequency on infant word learning.
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