Phonetic learning as a pathway to language: new data and native language magnet theory expanded (NLM-e)

By Patricia K. Kuhl, Barbara T. Conboy, S. Coffey-Corina, Denise Padden, Maritza Rivera-Gaxiola, Tobey Nelson. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2008

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Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology

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LRSpeech: Extremely Low-Resource Speech Synthesis and Recognition (2020, background): “Since people coming from different nations and speaking different languages share similar vocal organs and thus similar pronunciations, the ability of alignment learning in one language can help the alignment in another language [19, 42].”
Where Do Illusory Vowels Come from (2011, positive): “The perceptual system is said to become attuned to the native language during the first years of life (Kuhl, Williams, Lacerda, Stevens, & Lindblom, 1992; Kuhl et al., 2008; Werker & Tees, 1984).”
Speaker-Independent Speech Separation With Deep Attractor Network (2017, background): “te perceptual attractors (magnets). These attractors warp the acoustic feature space to draw in the sounds that are close to them, a phenomenon that is called the Perceptual Magnet Effect [35], [36], [37]. Our proposed model works on the same principle as DPCL by ﬁrst generating a high-dimensional e”
Brain Mechanisms in Early Language Acquisition (2010, methodology): “…at 7.5 months (C, left) and vocabulary growth for MMN values of +1 SD and 1 SD on the nonnative contrast at 7.5 months (C, right) (adapted from Kuhl et al., 2008). was measured in the same infants at 7.5 months of age, better native language perception predicted significantly higher language…”
Perceptual beginnings to language acquisition (2018, background): “Patricia Kuhl proposed a “magnet effect,” whereby highly familiar items, akin to category prototypes, would serve to attract similar variants and reduce discrimination among them (see Kuhl, 1993; Kuhl et al., 2008).”
The Relationship Between Infants’ Production Experience and Their Processing of Speech (2014, methodology): “E-mail: marinella.majorano@univr.it understanding of phonological development (e.g., Kuhl et al., 2008).”
UWSpeech: Speech to Speech Translation for Unwritten Languages (2020, background): “e phonetic representations learned in one language can more or less (depending on the language similarity) help the learning of phonetic representations in another language (Yallop and Fletcher 2007; Kuhl et al. 2008). Therefore, XL-VAE can beneﬁt from other written languages and outperform purely u”
First-Order Languaging Dynamics and Second-Order Language: The Distributed Language View (2011, background): “This is where second-order language plays a leading role.”
ABX-Discriminability Measures and Applications. (Mesures de discriminabilité ABX et applications) (2016, background): “Two other theoretical models of cross-linguistic phonetic category perception are often cited: the Speech Learning Model (SLM) [205–207] and the Native Language Magnet model (NLM) [208, 209].”
Computational modeling of phonetic and lexical learning in early language acquisition: Existing models and future directions (2012, background): “of two theories of LA that try to integrate the existing findings on early language acquisition: the native language magnet theory expanded (NLM-e; [24]) and the PRIMIR framework of language acquisition [25].”
Unified Coding of Spectral and Temporal Phonetic Cues: Electrophysiological Evidence for Abstract Phonological Features (2021, background): “In addition to vowel peripherality and focality, prototypicality and frequency also result in perceptual asymmetries (Kuhl et al., 2008; Kuhl, Williams, Lacerda, Stevens, & Lindblom, 1992).”