Segmentation problems, rhythmic solutions *
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The authors found evidence from speech production and perception studies with prelinguistic infants supporting the claim that infants are sensitive to rhythmic structure and its relationship to lexical segmentation, and the origin of rhythmic segmentation may therefore lie in the infant's exploitation of rhythm to solve the segmentation problem and gain a first toehold on lexical acquisition.About:
This article is published in Lingua.The article was published on 1994-04-01 and is currently open access. It has received 132 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Speech segmentation & Speech production.read more
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Word segmentation : the role of distributional cues
TL;DR: This article showed that distributional cues may play an important role in the initial word segmentation of language learners, and that the addition of certain prosodic cues served to enhance performance of infants.
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The discovery of spoken language
TL;DR: The role of memory and attentional processes in the development of speech perception was discussed in this paper, where attention to sound properties may facilitate learning other elements of linguistic organization relating perception to production.
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The Beginnings of Word Segmentation in English-Learning Infants.
TL;DR: The findings suggest that English learners may rely heavily on stress cues when they begin to segment words from fluent speech, however, within a few months time, infants learn to integrate multiple sources of information about the likely boundaries of words in fluent speech.
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Word Segmentation by 8-Month-Olds: When Speech Cues Count More Than Statistics
TL;DR: The authors used the headturn preference procedure to investigate infants' integration of multiple cues, such as stress, phonotactic constraints, and the statistical structure of the input, and found that infants find speech cues produced by coarticulation useful in word segmentation.
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Why would Musical Training Benefit the Neural Encoding of Speech? The OPERA Hypothesis.
TL;DR: The OPERA hypothesis is used to account for the observed superior subcortical encoding of speech in musically trained individuals, and to suggest mechanisms by which musical training might improve linguistic reading abilities.
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