A computational model of language acquisition: Focus on word discovery

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

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 2570-2573

  Ten Bosch, Louis ^a   Van Hamme, Hugo ^b   Boves, Lou ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Computational modelling; Language acquisition; Unsupervised word detection

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL MODEL; COMPUTATIONAL MODELLING; EUROPEAN LANGUAGES; FINNISH; HUMAN SPEECH PROCESSING; INPUT DATAS; LANGUAGE ACQUISITION; MEMORY STRUCTURE; MULTI-MODAL; SPEECH MODALITY; SPEECH SIGNALS; UNSUPERVISED WORD DETECTION; WORD REPRESENTATIONS;

SPEECH PROCESSING;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 84867222478     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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