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Robustness of the adult statistical word segmentation literature: Part 1
- Joshua Hartshorne
- Lauren Skorb
- Sven Dietz
- Caitlin Garcia
- Gina Iozzo
- Katie Lamirato
- James Ledoux
- Jesse Mu
- Kara Murdock
- Jon Ravid
- Alyssa Savery
- James Spizzirro
- Kelsey Trimm
- Juliani Vidal
- Kendall van Horne
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Description: We report the first set of results in a multi-year project to replicate every adult statistical word segmentation study. We reported replications of six experiments. The purpose of these replications is both to assess the strength of the findings in the statistical learning literature but also to provide more accurate effect size estimates. In every instance, we were able to replicate successful learning. However, many theoretically important modulations of that learning failed to replicate. Moreover, learning success was generally much lower than in the original studies. In the General Discussion, we consider whether these differences are due to differences in subject populations, low power in the original studies, or some other factor. Regardless, these initial results suggest taking caution in relying on the originally reported findings.
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Effect size calculations can be found in the folder "effect size calculations."
All data and code for the individual experiments can be found in the linked OSF projects.
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Replication of Finn & Hudson Kam (2008) The curse of knowledge: First language knowledge impairs adult learners’ use of novel statistics for word segmentation, Exp. 3
We replicated Exp. 3 of Finn & Hudson Kam (2008) The curse of knowledge: First language knowledge impairs adult learners’ use of novel statistics ...
Replication of Finn & Hudson Kam (2008) The curse of knowledge: First language knowledge impairs adult learners’ use of novel statistics for word segmentation, Exp. 1
We replicated Exp. 1 of Finn & Hudson Kam (2008) The curse of knowledge: First language knowledge impairs adult learners’ use of novel statistics ...
Replication of Saffran, Newport, & Aslin (1996) Word segmentation: The role of distributional cues, Exp. 1
I replicated Exp. 1 of Saffran, Newport, & Aslin (1996)
Word segmentation: The role of distributional cues,
of Memory and Language, 35, 606-...
Replication of Saffran, Johnson, Aslin, & Newport (1999) Statistical learning of tone sequences by human infants and adults, Exp. 1
We replicated Exp. 1 of Saffran, Johnson, Newport, & Aslin (1999) Statistical learning of tone sequences by human infants and adults, as part of a...
Replication of Frank, Goldwater, Griffiths, & Tenenbaum (2010): Modeling human performance in statistical word segmentation, Experiment 1
We replicated Exp. 1 of Frank, Goldwater, Griffiths, & Tenenbaum (2010): Modeling human performance in statistical word segmentation, Cognition, 1...
Replication of Saffran, Newport, & Aslin (1996) Word segmentation: The role of distributional cues, Exp. 1
We replicated Exp. 1 of Saffran, Newport, & Aslin (1996) Word segmentation: The role of distributional Cues, Journal of Memory and Language, 35, 6...
Replication of Saffran, Johnson, Aslin, & Newport (1999) Statistical learning of tone sequences by human infants and adults, Exp. 2
In this paper, we describe a replication of Experiment 2
from a classic statistical word-segmentation paper by Saffran,
Johnson, Aslin, and Newport (1...
In-lab Replication of Saffran, Newport, & Aslin (1996) Word segmentation:The role of distributional cues, Exp. 1
These are the results for an in-lab replication of Saffran, Newport, & Aslin (1996) Word segmentation: The role of distributional cues, Journal of...
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