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 Azuma Hazuki on Friday February 01 2019, @07:21AM
Sounds like the kind of thing an asshole would have on his luggage...
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...