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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: 2) by stretch611 on Thursday January 31 2019, @07:17PM (2 children)

    by stretch611 (6199) on Thursday January 31 2019, @07:17PM (#794658)
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    Now with 5 covid vaccine shots/boosters altering my DNA :P
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 31 2019, @07:36PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 31 2019, @07:36PM (#794666)

    Is that cartoon infringement?

    • (Score: 2) by stretch611 on Thursday January 31 2019, @08:49PM

      by stretch611 (6199) on Thursday January 31 2019, @08:49PM (#794701)

      Not if we had reasonable copyright laws that were limited to 25 years.

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      Now with 5 covid vaccine shots/boosters altering my DNA :P