Non-Adjacent Transitional Probabilities and the Induction of Grammatical Regularities
Franciso Calvo Garzón · eScholarship (California Digital Library) · 2005
According to Peña et al. (2002), statistical computations based on nonadjacent transitional probabilities of the sort that are exploited in speech segmentation cannot be used in order to induce existing grammatical regularities in the speech stream.In their view, statistics are insufficient to support the discovery of the underlying grammatical regularities.In this note I argue that a single statistical mechanism can account for the data Peña et al. report.