Event Details
On consonants, vowels, chicken and eggs
- Event Date: February 6, 2007
- Event Start Time: 12:00 PM
- Event End Time: 7:00 PM
- Event Location: Laboratory of Cognitive Development, SISSA/ISAS, Trieste, Italy and University of Paris VIII at St. Denis France
- Event Type: Talks: RuCCS Colloquia
- Event Semester: Spring 2007
- Event Contact: Luca Bonatti
- Event Extra info: <a href="http://psy.ck.sissa.it/perso/perso.html">Luca Bonatti</a>
I revise evidence suggesting that several learning mechanisms are active when a speech signal is analyzed, dedicated to extract extract words or rules from the speech stream. In particular, I will show that learners are sensitive to the fact that vowels and consonants tend to encode different types of information, always related to word or rule extraction. I will argue that the data I will present cannot be accounted for by nonlinguistic, general-purpose statistically-driven computations.