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Direct linkMersad, Karima; Nazzi, Thierry – Language Learning and Development, 2012
Transitional Probability (TP) computations are regarded as a powerful learning mechanism that is functional early in development and has been proposed as an initial bootstrapping device for speech segmentation. However, a recent study casts doubt on the robustness of early statistical word-learning. Johnson and Tyler (2010) showed that when…
Descriptors: Probability, Infants, Cues, Robustness (Statistics)
Nazzi, Thierry – Cognition, 2005
The present study explores the issue of the use of phonetic specificity in the process of learning new words at 20 months of age. The procedure used follows Nazzi and Gopnik [Nazzi, T., & Gopnik, A. (2001). Linguistic and cognitive abilities in infancy: When does language become a tool for categorization? "Cognition," 80, B11-B20].…
Descriptors: Phonetics, Learning Processes, Cognitive Ability, Vowels
