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Ping-Ping Liu, Wei-Jun Li, Nan Lin, Xing-Shan Li + 1 more
We conducted a preliminary study to examine whether Chinese readers’ spontaneous word segmentation processing is consistent with the national standard rules of word segmentation based on the Contemporary Chinese language word segmentation specification for information processing (CCLWSSIP). Participants were asked to…
Iris Berent, Amanda Dupuis, Diane Brentari, Steven Pinker
All spoken languages encode syllables and constrain their internal structure. But whether these restrictions concern the design of the language system, broadly, or speech, specifically, remains unknown. To address this question, here, we gauge the structure of signed syllables in American Sign Language (ASL). Like…
Huan-huan Zeng, Jun-feng Huang, Jun-ru Li, Zhiming Shen + 4 more
Marmosets are highly social non-human primates living in families. They exhibit rich vocalization, but neural basis underlying complex vocal communication is largely unknown. Here we report the existence of specific neuronal ensembles in marmoset A1 that respond selectively to distinct monosyllable or disyllable calls…
Victoria Leong, Usha Goswami, Frederic Dick
When acquiring language, young children may use acoustic spectro-temporal patterns in speech to derive phonological units in spoken language (e.g., prosodic stress patterns, syllables, phonemes). Children appear to learn acoustic-phonological mappings rapidly, without direct instruction, yet the underlying…
Yi Xu, Ratree Wayland, Jayanthi Sasisekaran
Speech is a highly skilled motor activity that shares a core problem with other motor skills: how to reduce the massive degrees of freedom (DOF) to the extent that the central nervous control and learning of complex motor movements become possible. It is hypothesized in this paper that a key solution to the DOF problem…
Noé Tits
In this paper, we present a methodology for linguistic feature extraction, focusing particularly on automatically syllabifying words in multiple languages, with a design to be compatible with a forced-alignment tool, the Montreal Forced Aligner (MFA). In both the textual and phonetic domains, our method focuses on the…
Lucas Benjamin, Ana Fló, Marie Palu, Shruit Naik + 2 more
Since speech is a continuous stream with no systematic boundaries between words, how do pre-verbal infants manage to discover words? A proposed solution is that they might use the transitional probability between adjacent syllables, which drops at word boundaries. Here, we tested the limits of this mechanism by…
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The exponentially growing body of scientific literature has made manual synthesis and hypothesis generation increasingly impractical, introducing an essential bottleneck in the scientific discovery pipeline. While large language models (LLMs) have unprecedented capability to process and summarize textual knowledge…