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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"child-directed speech"”.
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Unsupervised syntactic category learning from child-directed speech
… on linear context of words, specifically in child-directed speech. The idea behind this is that the categories used by children could very well be different from adult categories. There is some evidence that distributional analysis could be used for some aspects of language acquisition, …
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The acquisition of verbal morphology in Ayöök : child-directed speech, child language, and learning in the home
… naturalistic video recorded of three children (2;10-4;7) and their adult caregivers over the course of 12 months. Two comparisons are central to this description: (1) the comparison of verbs in adult-directed speech (ADS) to child-directed speech (CDS); and (2) the comparison of early …
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Experiencing language in the order that children do: Training on age-ordered child-directed speech facilitates semantic category learning in a recurrent neural network
… algorithm operating over naturalistic, noisy child-directed speech (Huebner & Willits, 2018). In chapter 1 of this work, I discuss the algorithm behind this study, and its ability to represent hierarchically organized and abstract knowledge. In chapter 2, I replicate the findings of Huebner & …
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Hydration and vocal loading on voice measures
… healthy participants produced 45-minutes of child-directed speech. In experiment 1, older, healthy adults produced loud child-directed speech, in the presence of background noise, in both low and moderate humidities, and voice was assessed. In experiment 2, young, healthy adults produced loud …
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Child- vs. adult-directed speech and self-esteem: effects on the task performances, arousal, and future esteem of elderly adults
In a sample of older individuals, the effects of speech type and initial esteem level on performance and subsequent esteem were explored in the present study. Results were inconclusive. Practice effects were found for all subjects, regardless of group membership on all tasks. Speech and Esteem …
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Understanding Contributors to Input Informativeness for Tense Marking: Overlap among English Typology, Parent-Toddler Interaction Style, and Register
… for tense marking, a predictor of child tense marking productivity (Hadley, Rispoli, Fitzgerald and Bahnsen, in press). The contributors explored were parent-toddler interaction style, register, and constraints of English verb typology. Method: The participants were 15 …
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Improving Understanding of Emotional Speech Acoustic Content
Children with cochlear implants show deficits in identifying emotional intent of utterances without facial or body language cues. A known limitation to cochlear implants is the inability to accurately portray the fundamental frequency contour of speech which carries the majority of information …
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The role of siblings on infant language exposure in daylong audio recordings
… of older siblings on the amounts and types of child- directed and overheard speech that infants hear. To address this, this study analyzed 76 daylong audio home recordings from 26 American families with infants between the ages of 6-12 months. To annotate the recordings, each audio was randomly …
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Minimal supervision for language learning: bootstrapping global patterns from local knowledge
… prior lexical and syntactic knowledge. Where do children begin in solving this problem when learning their first languages? To experiment with different representations that children may use to begin understanding language, we have built a computational model for this early point in language …
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The acquisition of raising
… investigation into typically developing children's acquisition of subject-to-subject (StS) raising. In particular, it asks how English-speaking children come to comprehend a StS raised sentence like (1) versus its semantically equivalent unraised counterpart (2), and how the presence of …
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Impact of the type of referring expression on the acquisition of word order variation
… expression on word order in the spontaneous speech of two- to four-year-olds and the child-directed speech produced by their mothers. The positioning of the direct object in ditransitive sentences was examined; in particular, sentences in which the direct object occurred before or after the …
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Phonological acquisition in a multidialectal and multicultural context: The case of bilingual preschoolers in Singapore
… herein explore the variation in the English child-directed speech (CDS) of Singaporean caregivers and its possible connections with or effects on the outcomes of phonological acquisition in their preschool children. The introductory chapter (Chapter 1) describes the sociolinguistic setting …
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Connecting input to comprehension: First language acquisition of active transitives and suffixal passives by Korean-speaking preschool children
… suffixal passives) for Korean-speaking preschool children. Three major grammatical factors affect interpretation of Korean sentences: word order through the relative position of arguments in a sentence, case marking via designated markers attached to arguments, and voice by way of verbal …