A Model of Prenatal Acquisition of Speech Parameters
Abstract:An unsupervised neural network model inductively acquires the ability to dis h categorically the stop consonants of English, in a manner c ent with prenatal and early postnatal auditory experience, and without reference to any spcialz knowledge of ligisic structure or the properties of speech. This argues against the common assumption that inguisic knowledge, and spee perception particular, cannot be learned and must therefore be innately specified.Chomsky's view that the "core" features ofhuman linguistic abi… Show more
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