The feasibility of this mechanism for learning phonetic categories has been challenged, however. Here, we demonstrate that a distributional learning algorithm operating on naturalistic speech can ...

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Parents should speak to their babies using sing-song speech, like nursery rhymes, as soon as possible, say researchers.

Across the country, parents are discovering that what their children bring home from school looks very little like what they ...

My Voice Chinese is the world's most-spoken language, but English enjoys the most internationally widespread use. Whether a first, second, or third language, English is used around the worl… ...

The pronunciation-hearing group successfully related phonetic radicals with the sounds represented by the radical, but this skill did not contribute to better learning of novel kanji. The results ...