Deb Roy: The Birth Of A Word - 2 views
"Baby" Robot Learns Language Like the Real Thing - 0 views
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Teaching a baby to speak is more art than science. It begins with babble and almost like magic the child says mama and dada, then no, uh-oh, mine, especially mine. But sometimes children struggle to learn to speak. A team of linguists, computer scientists and psychologists in Britain think robots might help explain why that happens. They've created the world's first baby robot, DeeChee; white plastic skin and a smile of red lights and articulated hands that grab and gesture almost like an infant. Now, scientists hope that DeeChee's silicon brain will help explain what's going on in the minds of human babies, specifically, how sensitivity to particular sounds helps infants learn words.
Language Development and Gesture in Congenitally Blind Children - 4 views
Language Development in the Blind Child - 4 views
NYT On Language: Chunking - 4 views
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"In recent decades, the study of language acquisition and instruction has increasingly focused on "chunking": how children learn language not so much on a word-by-word basis but in larger "lexical chunks" or meaningful strings of words that are committed to memory ... A native speaker picks up thousands of chunks like "heavy rain" or "make yourself at home" in childhood, and psycholinguistic research suggests that these phrases are stored and processed in the brain as individual units."
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Good find, Ryan! I also took the video link and embedded it into our moodle page.
COGNIT1750.pdf (application/pdf Object) - 1 views
Matt Ridley on Wild Children | Mind & Matter - WSJ.com - 9 views
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