Early phonetic learning without phonetic categories: Insights from large-scale simulations on realistic input

Schatz, T; Feldman, NH; Goldwater, S; Cao, XN; Dupoux, E

Schatz, T (corresponding author), Univ Maryland, Dept Linguist, College Pk, MD 20742 USA.; Schatz, T (corresponding author), Univ Maryland, Inst Adv Comp Studies, College Pk, MD 20742 USA.

PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 2021; 118 (7):

Abstract

Before they even speak, infants become attuned to the sounds of the language(s) they hear, processing native phonetic contrasts more easily than nonna......

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