How Infants Crack the Speech Code

scupper writes "Infants learn language with remarkable speed, but how they do it remains a mystery. New data shows that infants use computational strategies to detect patterns in language, according to UW's Dr. Patricia K. Kuhl in the Nature article "Early Language Acquisition: Cracking the Speech Code" [PMID: 15496861] Interesting excerpt from the article: 'There is evidence that infants analyse the statistical distributions of sounds that they hear in ambient language, and use this information to form phonemic categories. They also learn phonotactic rules -- language-specific rules that govern the sequences of phonemes that can be used to compose words.'"

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The question remains

[Aliencow]

Do they play ogg ?

Infants crack more than speech

[FerretFrottage]

...they also crack their parents. Want to hear the most annoying sound in the world? Try a colicky baby at 3 AM (or for this crowd since you are still awake at 3AM, while'll you're trying to play in a CS tournament and know someone is sneaking up on you).

Want to hear to greatest sound in the world? "Dada"