L103 Discussion, Week 7:
Learning linguistic form
Mini-projects: reminder
- Oral report in final exam slot
- Learning
- A "problem" in some language
- Why this would be challenging problem for a learner
- How a learner might go about it
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Relativity
Learning linguistic form
- Learning how to imitate
- The problem of relating perception and production
- Sign languages
- Spoken languages
- Babbling and how it works
- Babbling in deaf children
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Learning the phonemes of the language
- Learning what occurs and what doesn't, learning
the distribution of sounds
- An experiment with adults
- Learning what's contrastive
- The invariance problem for phonemes
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Learning word forms
- The problem of segmentation
- Using co-occurrence statistics
- Saffran et al.'s experiment
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Using stress patterns
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Using known words
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