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: 2) by stretch611 on Thursday January 31 2019, @07:17PM (2 children)
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/6d/36/fa/6d36fa7cc9d762952a62c7374095c685.jpg [pinimg.com]
Now with 5 covid vaccine shots/boosters altering my DNA :P
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 31 2019, @07:36PM (1 child)
Is that cartoon infringement?
(Score: 2) by stretch611 on Thursday January 31 2019, @08:49PM
Not if we had reasonable copyright laws that were limited to 25 years.
Now with 5 covid vaccine shots/boosters altering my DNA :P