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Multimodal Input Aids a Bayesian Model of Phonetic Learning
Sophia Zhi, Roger P. Levy, Stephan C. Meylan
One of the many tasks facing the typically-developing child language learner is learning to discriminate between the distinctive sounds that make up words in their native language.…
How Adults Understand What Young Children Say
Stephan C. Meylan, Ruthe Foushee, Nicole H. Wong +2
Children's early speech often bears little resemblance to that of adults, and yet parents and other caregivers are able to interpret that speech and react accordingly. Here we inve…
Child-directed Listening: How Caregiver Inference Enables Children's Early Verbal Communication
Stephan C. Meylan, Ruthe Foushee, Elika Bergelson +1
How do adults understand children's speech? Children's productions over the course of language development often bear little resemblance to typical adult pronunciations, yet caregi…
Evaluating Models of Robust Word Recognition with Serial Reproduction
Stephan C. Meylan, Sathvik Nair, Thomas L. Griffiths
Spoken communication occurs in a "noisy channel" characterized by high levels of environmental noise, variability within and between speakers, and lexical and syntactic ambiguity.…
Contextualized Word Embeddings Encode Aspects of Human-Like Word Sense Knowledge
Sathvik Nair, Mahesh Srinivasan, Stephan Meylan
Understanding context-dependent variation in word meanings is a key aspect of human language comprehension supported by the lexicon. Lexicographic resources (e.g., WordNet) capture…
Word forms - not just their lengths- are optimized for efficient communication
Stephan C. Meylan, Thomas L. Griffiths
The inverse relationship between the length of a word and the frequency of its use, first identified by G.K. Zipf in 1935, is a classic empirical law that holds across a wide range…