Does Infant-Directed Speech Help Phonetic Learning? A Machine Learning Investigation

Ludusan B, Mazuka R, Dupoux E (2021)
Cognitive Science 45(5): e12946.

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A prominent hypothesis holds that by speaking to infants in infant-directed speech (IDS) as opposed to adult-directed speech (ADS), parents help them learn phonetic categories. Specifically, two characteristics of IDS have been claimed to facilitate learning: hyperarticulation, which makes the categories more separable, and variability, which makes the generalization more robust. Here, we test the separability and robustness of vowel category learning on acoustic representations of speech uttered by Japanese adults in ADS, IDS (addressed to 18- to 24-month olds), or read speech (RS). Separability is determined by means of a distance measure computed between the five short vowel categories of Japanese, while robustness is assessed by testing the ability of six different machine learning algorithms trained to classify vowels to generalize on stimuli spoken by a novel speaker in ADS. Using two different speech representations, we find that hyperarticulated speech, in the case of RS, can yield better separability, and that increased between-speaker variability in ADS can yield, for some algorithms, more robust categories. However, these conclusions do not apply to IDS, which turned out to yield neither more separable nor more robust categories compared to ADS inputs. We discuss the usefulness of machine learning algorithms run on real data to test hypotheses about the functional role of IDS. © 2021 The Authors. Cognitive Science published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of Cognitive Science Society (CSS).
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biphonetics
Erscheinungsjahr
2021
Zeitschriftentitel
Cognitive Science
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45
Ausgabe
5
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e12946
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1551-6709
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https://pub.uni-bielefeld.de/record/2955252

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Ludusan B, Mazuka R, Dupoux E. Does Infant-Directed Speech Help Phonetic Learning? A Machine Learning Investigation. Cognitive Science. 2021;45(5): e12946.
Ludusan, B., Mazuka, R., & Dupoux, E. (2021). Does Infant-Directed Speech Help Phonetic Learning? A Machine Learning Investigation. Cognitive Science, 45(5), e12946. https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.12946
Ludusan, Bogdan, Mazuka, Reiko, and Dupoux, Emmanuel. 2021. “Does Infant-Directed Speech Help Phonetic Learning? A Machine Learning Investigation”. Cognitive Science 45 (5): e12946.
Ludusan, B., Mazuka, R., and Dupoux, E. (2021). Does Infant-Directed Speech Help Phonetic Learning? A Machine Learning Investigation. Cognitive Science 45:e12946.
Ludusan, B., Mazuka, R., & Dupoux, E., 2021. Does Infant-Directed Speech Help Phonetic Learning? A Machine Learning Investigation. Cognitive Science, 45(5): e12946.
B. Ludusan, R. Mazuka, and E. Dupoux, “Does Infant-Directed Speech Help Phonetic Learning? A Machine Learning Investigation”, Cognitive Science, vol. 45, 2021, : e12946.
Ludusan, B., Mazuka, R., Dupoux, E.: Does Infant-Directed Speech Help Phonetic Learning? A Machine Learning Investigation. Cognitive Science. 45, : e12946 (2021).
Ludusan, Bogdan, Mazuka, Reiko, and Dupoux, Emmanuel. “Does Infant-Directed Speech Help Phonetic Learning? A Machine Learning Investigation”. Cognitive Science 45.5 (2021): e12946.
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