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Table 5 Experiments 1A (blocked presentation in training) and 1B (random presentation in training): Percentages of correct markers (subject means with standard deviations) in the random-order sentence production task with old object nouns at the end of the last training session (with feedback) (SPwF), the random-order sentence production test with old object nouns in the test session (without feedback) (SP), the forced-choice grammaticality judgment task with old object nouns (GJ), the novel + hint sentence production task (SP, collapsed over novel-old and novel-new nouns), and the novel forced-choice grammaticality judgment task (GJ, collapsed over novel-old and novel-new nouns)

From: Language play facilitates language learning: Optimizing the input for gender-like category induction

 

Blocked presentation (Experiment 1A)

Random presentation (Experiment 1B)

Old items

Novel items

Old items

Novel items

Training mode

Production

Comprehension

Production

Comprehension

Production

Comprehension

Production

Comprehension

SPwF

SP

GJ

SP

GJ

SPwF

SP

GJ

SP

GJ

Prose

71.99 (16.73)

60.88 (16.43)

77.31 (8.36)

92.36 (19.29)

96.18 (6.52)

54.75 (17.94)

49.54 (19.56)

66.67 (9.77)

50.69 (17.48)

69.79 (10.97)

Rhyme

80.44 (16.46)

75.23 (20.01)

82.18 (11.87)

92.36 (10.93)

97.22 (2.71)

62.73 (15.27)

55.32 (20.67)

69.91 (9.31)

61.46 (19.39)

76.39 (8.94)

Melody

83.22 (13.14)

82.64 (14.48)

87.27 (12.50)

99.31 (2.41)

99.31 (1.62)

60.07 (16.92)

58.33 (16.15)

74.07 (9.79)

64.24 (19.98)

72.92 (15.64)

Rhyme&Melody

92.48 (10.62)

90.28 (19.43)

96.06 (5.09)

100 (0)

99.65 (1.2)

65.28 (19.14)

60.65 (18.83)

75.23 (10.95)

64.58 (26.62)

82.64 (13.74)