Infant Phonetic Learning as Perceptual Space Learning: A Crosslinguistic Evaluation of Computational Models

Yevgen Matusevych, Thomas Schatz, Herman Kamper, Naomi H. Feldman, Sharon Goldwater

Abstract: In the first year of life, infants' speech perception becomes attuned to the sounds of their native language. This process of early phonetic learning has traditionally been framed as phonetic categor...