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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.

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  • (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.