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Stephan Meylan

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Stephan Meylan @stephan-meylan.bsky.social · 26/10/2023
How do adults understand children’s early, highly variable speech? Our new paper in Nature Human Behavior (www.nature.com/articles/s41...) provides evidence that adults’ interpretations depend quite strongly on language expectations—what they think children are likely to say. 1/
Figure showing the difference in performance between pour  best model with rich expectations (90% agreement with annotators) and a baseline model that only uses phonetics (42%). We label the difference between the model results as the contribution of language expectations.
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