Cognitive bias for learning speech sounds from a continuous signal space seems non-linguistic
| العنوان: | Cognitive bias for learning speech sounds from a continuous signal space seems non-linguistic |
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| المؤلفون: | Bart de Boer, Sabine van der Ham |
| المساهمون: | Informatics and Applied Informatics |
| المصدر: | i-Perception, Vol 6 (2015) i-Perception |
| بيانات النشر: | Pion Ltd., 2015. |
| سنة النشر: | 2015 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Casual, perception bias, Speech recognition, Speech sounds, lcsh:BF1-990, Auditory Bias Special Issue, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Space (commercial competition), Affect (psychology), Article, Sensory Systems, Cognitive bias, Language and Linguistics, Ophthalmology, lcsh:Psychology, Artificial Intelligence, evolution of speech, Vowel, Generalization (learning), continuous signal space, frequency learning, Continuous signal, Psychology, learning biases, frequency learning, continuous signal space, perception bias, evolution of speech, learning biases |
| الوصف: | When learning language, humans have a tendency to produce more extreme distributions of speech sounds than those observed most frequently: In rapid, casual speech, vowel sounds are centralized, yet cross-linguistically, peripheral vowels occur almost universally. We investigate whether adults’ generalization behavior reveals selective pressure for communication when they learn skewed distributions of speech-like sounds from a continuous signal space. The domain-specific hypothesis predicts that the emergence of sound categories is driven by a cognitive bias to make these categories maximally distinct, resulting in more skewed distributions in participants’ reproductions. However, our participants showed more centered distributions, which goes against this hypothesis, indicating that there are no strong innate linguistic biases that affect learning these speech-like sounds. The centralization behavior can be explained by a lack of communicative pressure to maintain categories. |
| اللغة: | English |
| DOI: | 10.1177/2041669515593019 |
| URL الوصول: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_dedup___::0b9bc69680d88b1e4d00d624d379efb5 https://doi.org/10.1177/2041669515593019 |
| Rights: | OPEN |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsair.doi.dedup.....0b9bc69680d88b1e4d00d624d379efb5 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
| DOI: | 10.1177/2041669515593019 |
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