{"id":4737,"date":"2026-07-28T13:42:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T05:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/linguistics.hku.hk\/ldlhku\/?p=4737"},"modified":"2026-07-28T13:42:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T05:42:16","slug":"exploring-substantive-bias-through-incidental-phonological-learning-accuracy-and-conscious-status-of-the-resultant-knowledge-published-in-language-and-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/linguistics.hku.hk\/ldlhku\/archives\/4737","title":{"rendered":"\u201cExploring Substantive Bias Through Incidental Phonological Learning: Accuracy and Conscious Status of the Resultant Knowledge\u201d published in Language and Speech"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We are pleased to share a new publication by Xiaoyu, Yuyan, and Youngah in <em>Language and Speech<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The paper, titled &#8220;Exploring Substantive Bias Through Incidental Phonological Learning: Accuracy and Conscious Status of the Resultant Knowledge,&#8221; investigates how substantive bias emerges in phonological learning by comparing the acquisition of phonetically natural patterns (vowel harmony) versus unnatural ones (vowel disharmony).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To address why many previous studies have struggled to find evidence for this bias, the team introduced a disguise task to minimize intentional learning. Moving beyond traditional accuracy rates, the study also comprehensively measured the conscious status of the participants&#8217; resultant knowledge. The results showed that while overall learning rates were low across the board, participants exposed to the &#8220;unnatural&#8221; vowel disharmonic items actually had a higher likelihood of possessing conscious judgment knowledge compared to the harmonic group. The authors attribute this to the possibility that disharmonic items are perceptually more distinctive in a strictly incidental learning environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Overall, the findings demonstrate that substantive bias may not always manifest in basic accuracy rates, but rather through differences in knowledge consciousness, offering a fresh perspective on how we evaluate and understand the acquisition of phonological patterns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-subtle-background-background-color has-background\"><strong>Yu, X., Xue, Y.,<\/strong> &amp; <strong>Do, Y. <\/strong> (2026). Exploring substantive bias through incidental phonological learning: Accuracy and conscious status of the resultant knowledge. <em>Language and Speech.<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/00238309261464113\"><span class=\"material-symbols-outlined\">open_in_new<\/span> DOI<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are pleased to share a new publication by Xiaoyu, Yuyan, and Youngah in Language and Speech. The paper, titled &#8220;Exploring Substantive Bias Through Incidental Phonological Learning: Accuracy and Conscious Status of the Resultant Knowledge,&#8221; investigates how substantive bias emerges in phonological learning by comparing the acquisition of phonetically natural patterns (vowel harmony) versus unnatural [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4738,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,9,47],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.hku.hk\/ldlhku\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4737"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.hku.hk\/ldlhku\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.hku.hk\/ldlhku\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.hku.hk\/ldlhku\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.hku.hk\/ldlhku\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4737"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.hku.hk\/ldlhku\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4761,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.hku.hk\/ldlhku\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4737\/revisions\/4761"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.hku.hk\/ldlhku\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.hku.hk\/ldlhku\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.hku.hk\/ldlhku\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.hku.hk\/ldlhku\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}