Toscano, J. C. & McMurray, B. (2008). In B. C. Love, K. McRae, & V. M. Sloutsky (Eds.), Proceedings of the 30th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 433-438). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
Abstract: A great deal of behavioral evidence suggests that infants can use distributional statistics to learn speech sound categories. .. Read more →
Toscano, J. C. and McMurray, B. (2007, October). Poster presented at Where Do Features Come From? Phonological Primitives in the Brain, the Mouth, and the Ear. Paris, France.
Abstract:
A central issue in phonology and speech perception is the relationship between acoustic cues in the speech signal and the features they correspond to... Read more →
Toscano, J. C. and McMurray, B. (2007, March). Poster presented at the 2007 Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Boston, MA.
Toscano, J. C. and McMurray, B. (2005, November). Paper presented at the 11th Midcontinental Workshop on Phonology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.
Abstract:
Infants learning the phonetic categories of their native language must recognize which distinctions are relevant to their language and which are not. While they initially discriminate both native and non-native phoneme contrasts, infants quickly learn to discriminate only those contrasts that are present in their language (Werker & Tees, 1984), and eventually form language-appropriate phonetic categories... Read more →
