The Role of the Body in Infant Language Learning
Yu Chen, Dana H. Ballard · Oxford University Press eBooks · 2009
We show in a series of three related studies that intentional cues encoded in body movements can provide very specific gains to language learning. A computational model is developed on the basis of machine learning techniques which can identify sound patterns of individual words from continuous speech using non‐linguistic contextual information and employ body movements as deictic references to discover word‐meaning associations.