WEEK 6: LANGUAGE ACQUISITION: LEARNING SOUND PATTERNS March 29
Section outline
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How infants learn: The nature of learning from language sounds
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Statistical learning: Recognition of sounds and their patterns
- TED Talk Pat Kuhl et al., Language, culture, mind and brain File
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Reading: Learning sounds, in Sedivy, ch. 4, pp. 105-119
- Recommended readings: Seeds of Speech, ch. 7, by J. Aitchison
- Review: File 2.1-2.3 (Phonetics)
- Assignment: Web activities 4.1-4.5 https://learninglink.oup.com/access/sedivy-2e-student-resources#tag_chapter-04
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