Early phonetic learning without phonetic categories: Insights from large-scale simulations on realistic input

T Schatz, NH Feldman, S Goldwater… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Before they even speak, infants become attuned to the sounds of the language (s) they hear,
processing native phonetic contrasts more easily than nonnative ones. For example …

Modeling early phonetic acquisition from child-centered audio data

M Lavechin, M de Seyssel, M Métais, F Metze… - Cognition, 2024 - Elsevier
Infants learn their native language (s) at an amazing speed. Before they even talk, their
perception adapts to the language (s) they hear. However, the mechanisms responsible for …

Infant phonetic learning as perceptual space learning: A crosslinguistic evaluation of computational models

Y Matusevych, T Schatz, H Kamper… - Cognitive …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
In the first year of life, infants' speech perception becomes attuned to the sounds of their
native language. This process of early phonetic learning has traditionally been framed as …

[PDF][PDF] Statistical learning models of early phonetic acquisition struggle with child-centered audio data

M Lavechin, M De Seyssel, M Métais, F Metze… - 2023 - files.osf.io
Infants learn their native language (s) at an amazing speed. Before they even talk, their
perception adapts to the language (s) they hear. However, the mechanisms responsible for …

Improving unsupervised acoustic word embeddings using segment-and frame-level information

L Van Staden - 2021 - scholar.sun.ac.za
Many speech processing tasks involve measuring the acoustic similarity between speech
segments. Conventionally, these speech comparisons are performed using dynamic time …

[PDF][PDF] Early phonetic learning without phonetic categories

T Schatza, NH Feldmana, S Goldwaterb, XN Caoc… - osf.io
Before they even speak, infants become attuned to the sounds of the language (s) they hear,
processing native phonetic contrasts more easily than non-native ones (1–3). For example …