Effects of Transitional and Phonotactic Probabilities on Word Extraction and Simultaneous Mapping with Visual Stimuli across Ambiguous Trials

We investigated the effects of transitional and phonotactic probabilities on word extraction and simultaneous mapping. Results showed that the alignment between probabilities facilitated segmentation and mapping. In turn, the misalignment between probabilities made it difficult to segment the words, but participants still were able to map words to their referents.