Evolution of a rapidly learned representation for speech

Newly born infants are able to finely discriminate almost all human speech contrasts and their phonemic category boundaries are initially identical, even for phonemes outside their target language. A connectionist model is described which accounts for this ability. The approach taken has been to dev...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Nakisa, R, Plunkett, K
Format: Conference item
Published: 1997