期刊
BRAIN SCIENCES
卷 11, 期 2, 页码 -出版社
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/brainsci11020177
关键词
speaker variability; distributional learning; speech perception; phonemic categories; language acquisition
Both adults and young children demonstrate remarkable sensitivity and systematic abilities in processing speech signals despite speaker variability, utilizing this variation for further information processing, particularly in word learning situations. This suggests that speaker-specific information processing plays a crucial role in language acquisition and phoneme learning in infancy.
Speech is an acoustically variable signal, and one of the sources of this variation is the presence of multiple speakers. Empirical evidence has suggested that adult listeners possess remarkably sensitive (and systematic) abilities to process speech signals, despite speaker variability. It includes not only a sensitivity to speaker-specific variation, but also an ability to utilize speaker variation with other sources of information for further processing. Recently, many studies also showed that young children seem to possess a similar capacity. This suggests continuity in the processing of speaker-dependent speech variability, and suggests that this ability could also be important for infants learning their native language. In the present paper, we review evidence for speaker variability and speech processing in adults, and speaker variability and speech processing in young children, with an emphasis on how they make use of speaker-specific information in word learning situations. Finally, we will build on these findings to make a novel proposal for the use of speaker-specific information processing in phoneme learning in infancy.
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