Evaluating parameters for mapping adult vowels to imitative babbling

Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 688-691

  Heintz, Ilana ^a   Beckman, Mary ^a   Fosler Lussier, Eric ^b   Ménard, Lucie ^c  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b The Ohio State University   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Language acquisition; Language development; Neural networks; Self organizing maps

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC DOMAINS; DYNAMIC ASPECTS; LANGUAGE ACQUISITION; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; NEURAL NETWORK MODEL; SPEECH PATTERNS; SPEECH SOUNDS; TRAINING DATA;

ACOUSTICS; CONFORMAL MAPPING; LINGUISTICS; MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS; SELF ORGANIZING MAPS;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 70450189012     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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