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Peer reviewedNakisa, Ramin Charles; Plunkett, Kim – Language and Cognitive Processes, 1998
Describes a connectionist model accounting for newborn infants' ability to finely discriminate almost all human speech contrasts and the fact that their phonemic category boundaries are identical, even for phonemes outside their target language. The model posits an innately guided learning in which an artificial neural network is stored in a…
Descriptors: Infants, Language Acquisition, Language Processing, Language Research
