Gkresia Nikolaidi

Weekly Report #3
September 12-16

A yes-or-no question type was used in an experiment to examine the number of errors made
among children in two mean age groups of four and four years and three months old. Based
on the results, the preverbal stage of speech had more dysfluency than the postverbal.
Without domain-specific learning processes, it seems hard to learn languages. Language
learning is not a good fit for domain-general learning techniques. Associationist theories,
which focus on memories, connections, and patterns, and Bayesian models, which
emphasize learning statistical thoughts, are the two main approaches.

It has taken some time to realize the importance of building machines that can comprehend

human speech. In addition to raw processing power, this has needed enormous quantities of
research funding, time, and creativity. The presence of computers has created major
advances in speech recognition. The forms, motions, and gestures of the mouth limit
spoken language. Sounds spread their characteristics all over their surroundings, as opposed
to letters, which inhabit their own places in order. Phonemes are groups of similar sounds
that have the same function. Allophones are thought to fall under the same broad heading.
If the word "chair" is comparable to a phonemic category, then armchairs and rocking
chairs are allophones. Idealized graphs of a phoneme forced-choice detection exercise
show two separate hypothetical results. Bruderer and her coworkers gave babies teethers
and others nothing, to see if this affected their articulatory system, showing babies that
could move their tongues to use their articulatory system better when listening to new
speech sounds, which may have had an impact on their performance if they could generate
target sounds correctly.