LING 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Red Army, Text Segmentation
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Babbling begins at 6 months, becomes more variable and language specific at 12 months. For many children, word learning accelerates dramatically around 18 months. Word segmentation problem is the fact that children must somehow decide where the breaks are between words in the speech stream, despite the fact that there are no physical breaks in the stream. So you can use this knowledge to help you segment novel speech streams. Transitional probability- the probability of transitioning from one specific sound to the letter that comes after it. The sequence of sounds inside a word will be spoken every time the word is spoken. Sequences of sounds outside of words will only be spoken when those two words are randomly stuck next to each other. Very young children <18 months are often described as having a noun bias. Most likely this is due to the salience of nouns in scenes.
