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Acquiring and adapting phonetic categories in a computational model of speech perception

Toscano, J. C. (2013, April). Invited paper presented at the Workshop on Current Issues and Methods in Speaker Adaptation, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.

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Recent work on perceptual adaptation has demonstrated that listeners can learn novel distributions of acoustic cues in unsupervised learning tasks with only a small amount of experience (Clayards, Tanenhaus, Aslin, & Jacobs, 2008, Cognition; Munson, 2011, dissertation)... Read more →

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Towards an integration of connectionist learning and dynamical systems processing: Case studies in speech and lexical development

McMurray, B., Horst, J., Toscano, J. C., & Samuelson, L. K. (2009). In J. P. Spencer, M. Thomas, & J. McClelland (Eds.), Toward a Unified Theory of Development: Connectionism and Dynamic Systems Theory Re-Considered. Oxford University Press.

Abstract: This chapter describes model of the development of simple analogical reasoning and shows how the model accounts for seven characteristics of children’s developing abilities to reason analogically... Read more →

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