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posted by mrpg on Thursday January 31 2019, @08:55AM   Printer-friendly
from the natural-born-speakers dept.

Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

Newborn babies are born with the innate skills needed to pick out words from language, a new study published in Developmental Science reveals.

Before infants can learn words, they must identify those words in continuous speech. Yet, the speech signal lacks obvious boundary markers, which poses a potential problem for language acquisition.

[...] The researchers discovered two mechanisms in three-day-old infants, which give them the skills to pick out words in a stream of sounds.

The first mechanism is known as prosody, the melody of language, allow us to recognise when a word starts and stops.

The second is called the statistics of language, which describes how we compute the frequency of when sounds in a word come together.

-- submitted from IRC


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  • (Score: 1, Offtopic) by realDonaldTrump on Thursday January 31 2019, @10:03AM (12 children)

    by realDonaldTrump (6614) on Thursday January 31 2019, @10:03AM (#794466) Homepage Journal

    So I was giving my speech, beautiful speech about China. Very powerful. And we have the "oh, wah wah wah." That's right, some idiot had brought her baby. And I said, don’t worry about that baby, I love babies, I hear that baby crying, I like it. What a baby, what a beautiful baby. Don’t worry, the mom’s running around, don’t worry about it, It’s young and beautiful and healthy, that’s what we want. And I got back to China, back to the devaluation.

    She didn't get the hint. Can you believe it? I was talking about the devaluation, I gave the shout out to the baby. Big big hint. But she didn't get it. So I said, actually, I was only kidding. I said, you can get the baby out of here. And I think she really believed me, that I love having a baby crying while I’m speaking.

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  • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 31 2019, @10:15AM (11 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 31 2019, @10:15AM (#794470)

    You are the reason I stopped logging into this website, and haven't subscribed in over a year. Enjoy it, faggot.

    • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 31 2019, @10:44AM (3 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 31 2019, @10:44AM (#794475)

      I second that. It's getting as bad as the bullshit from /.

      • (Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 31 2019, @03:46PM (2 children)

        by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 31 2019, @03:46PM (#794555)

        Wait... my comment and the one above are marked as -1 Troll but the real troll is isn't? This really is /. of another color.

        • (Score: 0, Offtopic) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday January 31 2019, @06:45PM (1 child)

          by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Thursday January 31 2019, @06:45PM (#794642) Journal

          I just dropped the well-deserved -1 Troll on him.

          And if it weren't for the fact that for whatever reason the shit-for-brains management of this place doesn't consider his useless, ubiquitous shitposting spam, it would have been a Spam mod.

          --
          I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
          • (Score: 0, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 31 2019, @09:04PM

            by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 31 2019, @09:04PM (#794708)

            "whatever reason"

            We know the reason, many of them are internet trolls here for the lulz. The admire trolling! Sadly this is probably the healthiest step away from christian fundamentalism they are capable of making.

    • (Score: 4, Funny) by realDonaldTrump on Thursday January 31 2019, @12:08PM (2 children)

      by realDonaldTrump (6614) on Thursday January 31 2019, @12:08PM (#794490) Homepage Journal

      You forgot your Password because of me. That's very special. Remembering Passwords is easy. It's called Post-It Notes!!

      • (Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Thursday January 31 2019, @06:29PM (1 child)

        by DeathMonkey (1380) on Thursday January 31 2019, @06:29PM (#794633) Journal

        You need a post-it note to remember 12345?

        • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Friday February 01 2019, @07:21AM

          by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Friday February 01 2019, @07:21AM (#794919) Journal

          Sounds like the kind of thing an asshole would have on his luggage...

          --
          I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
    • (Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 31 2019, @12:55PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 31 2019, @12:55PM (#794502)

      I love DJT posting so much I bought him a subscription. Guess it all works out even.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 31 2019, @01:13PM (2 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 31 2019, @01:13PM (#794504)

      "Why so serious?"

      Are you actually taking that seriously?

      • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 31 2019, @09:10PM (1 child)

        by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 31 2019, @09:10PM (#794710)

        Some people don't enjoy repeated heavy trolling.

        I recall one libertarian friend who declared that if someone made him angry his strategy was to try and piss them off more, and that seemed to transfer his anger away. A pretty shitty tactic that doesn't even work long term, a form of emotional suppression / transference that doesn't solve the underlying problems.

        Can't say I'm surprised, the people around here that admire trolling tend to over inflate their own value while using stupid tactics to evade engaging valid criticisms.

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 02 2019, @11:49AM

          by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 02 2019, @11:49AM (#795367)

          I'm not admiring trolling, but that is just funny. Lighten up.