Segmentation of Fluent Speech into Words: Learning Models and the Role of Maternal Input

Abstract

[summarizes] two research strategies aimed at understanding how maternal speech input enables pre-productive infants to segment words from fluent speech / the first strategy consists of gathering audio-recordings of maternal speech directed to 12-mo-olds in two different tasks: teaching the infant a new word and reading from a story book / the second strategy consists of constructing a simulation of the word-segmentation process using neural networks (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved). (chapter)