PSYCH 150 Lecture Notes - Markov Chain, Text Segmentation, Richard N. Aslin
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Within a language, the transitional probability from one sound to the next will generally be highest when the two sounds follow one another in a word, whereas transitional probabilities spanning a word boundary will be relatively low. - Saffran, aslin and newport"s belief about the relation between transitional probability and word boundaries was that a word boundary will be placed at a minimum of the transitional probability. They say that it doesn"t matter what the probability actually is, so long as it"s minimum when compared to the probabilities surrounding it. They believed transitional probabilities would be higher when the conditional probability o one syllable following another is higher, ie ca is usually followed by stle . It is possible to have one without the other briefly explain how. A transitional probability minimum is the lowest transitional probability given a sequence of them in a sentence ie 0. 1 is the lowest of 0. 9, 0. 5, 0. 3.
