AUTHOR=Buckler Helen , Fikkert Paula TITLE=Using Distributional Statistics to Acquire Morphophonological Alternations: Evidence from Production and Perception JOURNAL=Frontiers in Psychology VOLUME=7 YEAR=2016 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00540 DOI=10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00540 ISSN=1664-1078 ABSTRACT=
Morphophonological alternations, such as the voicing alternation that arises in a morphological paradigm due to final-devoicing in Dutch, are notoriously difficult for children to acquire. This has previously been attributed to their unpredictability. In fact, the presence or absence of a voicing alternation is partly predictable if the phonological context of the word is taken into account, and adults have been shown to use this information (