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SUBMITTER: Swingley D
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7224410 | biostudies-literature | 2018 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Swingley Daniel D Alarcon Claudia C
Cognitive science 20180521
In their first year, infants begin to learn the speech sounds of their language. This process is typically modeled as an unsupervised clustering problem in which phonetically similar speech-sound tokens are grouped into phonetic categories by infants using their domain-general inference abilities. We argue here that maternal speech is too phonetically variable for this account to be plausible, and we provide phonetic evidence from Spanish showing that infant-directed Spanish vowels are more read ...[more]