Infant sensitivity to distributional information can affect phonetic discrimination.

By Jessica Maye, Janet F. Werker, L. Gerken. Cognition, 2002

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Subfields: Cultural Studies, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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Cognitive Science in the era of Artificial Intelligence: A roadmap for reverse-engineering the infant language-learner (2016, neutral): “This example reveals that contrary to the hypothesis in Maye et al. (2002), finding phonetic units is not only a problem of constructing categories (clustering), it is also a problem of segmenting continuous speech.”
PRIMIR: A Developmental Framework of Infant Speech Processing (2005, background): “Taken together, the Maye et al. (2002) and Anderson et al. (2003) studies showed that infants use both distributional and frequency information in the input to restructure their phonetic categories.”
Shortlist B: a Bayesian model of continuous speech recognition. (2008, background): “As we have already suggested, the knowledge necessary to compute likelihoods is probably initially acquired in infancy, as a result of exposure to the distribution of phonetic variability of phonological categories in the language the infant hears (Maye et al., 2002).”
Brain Mechanisms in Early Language Acquisition (2010, background): “As reviewed, infants show robust learning effects in statistical learning studies when tested in the laboratory with very simple stimuli (Maye et al., 2002, 2008; Saffran et al., 1996).”
Phonetic learning as a pathway to language: new data and native language magnet theory expanded (NLM-e) (2008, background): “Young infants learn 'statistically' (Saffran 2002) at many levels, including phonetic (Kuhl et al. 1992; Maye et al. 2002, in press), phonotactic ( Jusczyk et al. 1993, 1994), lexical (Goodsitt et al. 1993; Saffran et al. 1996) and syntactic (Gomez & Gerken 1999, 2000; Marcus et al. 1999; Peñ a et…”
Is speech learning 'gated' by the social brain? (2007, background): “Thus, the presence of a human being interacting with the infant during language exposure, while not required for simpler statistical-learning tasks (Maye et al ., 2002; Saffran et al ., 1996), is critical for learning in our natural language-learning situation in which infants heard, on average,…”
The Infant's Auditory World: Hearing, Speech, and the Beginnings of Language (2007, background): “Tallal and her colleagues (Tallal, Miller, Jenkins, & Merzenich, 1997; Tallal & Piercy, 1973, 1974) have long argued that a deficit in auditory temporal resolution is the underlying cause of specific language impairment. Wright et al. (1997) collected psychophysical data from children with language ”
Infants show a facilitation effect for native language phonetic perception between 6 and 12 months. (2006, background): “Natural phonetic learning may require a social context, despite the fact that simple (and likely short-term) phonetic learning can be demonstrated in the absence of a social context (e.g. Maye et al., 2002).”
Early language acquisition: cracking the speech code (2004, background): “So, distributional patterns of sounds provide clues about the phonemic structure of a languag”
The development of phonetic representation in bilingual and monolingual infants (2007, background): “One account of phonological reorganization holds that infants keep track of the distributional frequencies of sounds in the language environment, using them to guide perception ( Maye, Werker, & Gerken, 2002 ).”
Discovering linguistic structures in speech: models and applications (2014, background): “As pointed out in [96, 124, 88, 160, 159, 64], success in some sub-problems of the language acquisition procedure relies on infants’ sensitivity to the distributional patterns of sounds in a language.”
Chinese and English Infants' Tone Perception: Evidence for Perceptual Reorganization (2006, result): “Such a finding would be consistent with the results of a study by Maye, Werker, and Gerken (2002) , who found that after just a few minutes of exposure to a novel language, infants’ sensitivity to the phonetic categories of that language improved.”