Infants generalize representations of statistically segmented words

The acoustic variation in language presents learners with a substantial challenge. To learn by tracking statistical regularities in speech, infants must recognize words across tokens that differ based on characteristics such as the speaker’s voice, affect, or the sentence context. Previous statistic...

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Main Author: Katharine eGraf Estes
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2012-10-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00447/full