AbstractsLanguage, Literature & Linguistics
Nature’s distributional-learning experiment: Infants’ input, infants’ perception, and computational modeling
| Institution: | Universiteit van Amsterdam |
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| Year: | 2013 |
| Record ID: | 1255996 |
| Full text PDF: | http://hdl.handle.net/11245/1.388793 |
Abstract
In this dissertation, I show that Dutch infants can learn about the man-vowel and the maan-vowel by just listening to the vowel sounds that their mothers say. Dutch mothers do not pronounce the man-vowel and the maan-vowel very clearly for their language-learning baby, because they are too busy playing and smiling. And that is not a problem. The learning mechanism of the babies is sufficiently powerful that they do not need to be taught about the man-vowel and the maan-vowel. Babies take care of it themselves.
