The naïve language expert: How infants discover units and regularities in speech

• Main Author: Jutta L Mueller (auth)
• Other Authors: Claudia Mannel (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media SA 2015
• Series: Frontiers Research Topics
• Subjects: Psychology; language learning; statistical learning; Prosody; language development; phonotactics; artificial grammar; word learning; speech segmentation; phonology
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The advent of behavior-independent measures of cognition and major progress in experimental designs have led to substantial advances in the investigation of infant language learning mechanisms. Research in the last two decades has shown that infants are very efficient users of perceptual and statist...