Categorical perception (CP) is likely the single finding from speech perception with the
biggest impact on cognitive science. However, within speech perception, it is widely known …

Abstract We introduce Generative Spoken Language Modeling, the task of learning the
acoustic and linguistic characteristics of a language from raw audio (no text, no labels), and …

An early achievement in language is carving a variable acoustic space into categories. The
canonical story is that infants accomplish this by the second year, when only unsupervised …

The goal of this article is to make the case for a radical exemplar account of child language
acquisition, under which unwitnessed forms are produced and comprehended by on-the-fly …

Early changes in infants' ability to perceive native and nonnative speech sound contrasts are
typically attributed to their develo** knowledge of phonetic categories. We critically …

In the last two decades, statistical clustering models have emerged as a dominant model of
how infants learn the sounds of their language. However, recent empirical and …

At birth, infants discriminate most of the sounds of the world's languages, but by age 1,
infants become language-specific listeners. This has generally been taken as evidence that …

Perceptual attunement to the native phonetic repertoire occurs over the first year of life: an
infant's discrimination of non-native phonetic contrasts declines while their discrimination of …

Language use in everyday life can be studied using lightweight, wearable recorders that
collect long-form recordings—that is, audio (including speech) over whole days. The …

Computational approaches have an important role to play in understanding the complex
process of speech acquisition, in general, and have recently been popular in studies of …