Transitional Probabilities

• $\text{Prob of }Y|X=\frac{\text{freq of}XY}{\text{freq of }X}$
• Longer listening times for non-words indicates recognition of words
• Transitional probabilities can be high within words, and low at word boundaries as in Aslin et al
• But then you can also manipulate the frequency at which each word occurs, and in doing so, also the frequency of the syllables
• Graf Estes et al
• Transition frequencies can be made high because two words occur very often next to each other