Distributional Learning of Vowel Categories is Supported by Prosody in Infant-Directed Speech

Building Bridges Across Cognitive Sciences Around the World - Proceedings of the 34th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 72-77

  Adriaans, Frans ^a   Swingley, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

computational modeling; Infant directed speech; phonetic category learning; prosody

Indexed keywords

LEARNING SYSTEMS; SPEECH;

COMPUTATIONAL MODELLING; DISTRIBUTIONAL CLUSTERING; DISTRIBUTIONAL LEARNING; HIGH QUALITY; INFANT-DIRECTED SPEECH; LEARNING MECHANISM; LEARNING PROCESS; PHONETIC CATEGORY LEARNING; PROSODY; SOURCES OF INFORMATIONS;

LINGUISTICS;

EID: 85139261850     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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