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Peer reviewedNakisa, Ramin Charles; Plunkett, Kim – Language and Cognitive Processes, 1998
Describes a connectionist model accounting for newborn infants' ability to finely discriminate almost all human speech contrasts and the fact that their phonemic category boundaries are identical, even for phonemes outside their target language. The model posits an innately guided learning in which an artificial neural network is stored in a…
Descriptors: Infants, Language Acquisition, Language Processing, Language Research
Peer reviewedChristophe, Anne; Guasti, Teresa; Nespor, Marina; Van Ooyen, Brit; Dupoux, Emmanuel – Language and Cognitive Processes, 1997
Reviews the hypothesis, "phonological bootstrapping," that a purely phonological analysis of the speech signal may allow infants to start acquiring the lexicon and syntax of their native language. Study presents a model of phonological bootstrapping of the lexicon and syntax that helps illustrate the congruence between problems. Article argues…
Descriptors: Adults, Auditory Stimuli, Child Language, Hypothesis Testing
