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Newborn Babies Have Inbuilt Ability to Pick Out Words

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

"exec" writes:

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.

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  • (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 /.

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  • (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.

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      • (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.