Padraic Monaghan
List of John Benjamins publications for which Padraic Monaghan plays a role.
2020 Insights from studying statistical learning Current Perspectives on Child Language Acquisition: How children use their environment to learn, Rowland, Caroline F., Anna L. Theakston, Ben Ambridge and Katherine E. Twomey (eds.), pp. 65–89 | Chapter
Acquiring language is notoriously complex, yet for the majority of children this feat is accomplished with remarkable ease. Usage-based accounts of language acquisition suggest that this success can be largely attributed to the wealth of experience with language that children accumulate over the… read more
2016 Chapter 10. Cross-Linguistic Evidence for Probabilistic Orthographic Cues to Lexical Stress Linguistic Rhythm and Literacy, Thomson, Jenny and Linda Jarmulowicz (eds.), pp. 215–236 | Article
Reading a word requires converting symbols to a phonetic sequence but also determining the stress position of that word. In this chapter, we analysed corpora of English, Dutch, German, Italian, Spanish, and Greek to determine whether sublexical probabilistic information from the very beginnings and… read more
2012 Measures of phonological typicality: Robust coherence and psychological validity Methodological and Analytic Frontiers in Lexical Research, Libben, Gary, Gonia Jarema and Chris Westbury (eds.), pp. 13–31 | Article
Phonological Typicality (PT) is a measure of the extent to which a word’s phonology is typical of other words in the lexical category to which it belongs. There is a general coherence among words from the same category in terms of speech sounds, and we have found that words that are phonologically… read more
2010 Measures of phonological typicality: Robust coherence and psychological validity Methodological and Analytic Frontiers in Lexical Research (Part I), Jarema, Gonia, Gary Libben and Chris Westbury (eds.), pp. 281–299 | Article
Phonological Typicality (PT) is a measure of the extent to which a word’s phonology is typical of other words in the lexical category to which it belongs. There is a general coherence among words from the same category in terms of speech sounds, and we have found that words that are phonologically… read more
2008 Integration of multiple probabilistic cues in syntax acquisition Corpora in Language Acquisition Research: History, methods, perspectives, Behrens, Heike (ed.), pp. 139–163 | Article
2000 Linguistic and Graphical Representations and the Characterisation of Individual Differences Spatial Cognition: Foundations and applications, Ó Nualláin, Seán (ed.), pp. 299–313 | Article