Friday, July 27th, 2007

Computer Program Yields Clues About Baby Talk

Studying how children process vowel sounds in nonsense words. Image courtesy J. Werker, University of British Columbia

A computer program may explain how babies learn to talk. Researchers have studied how babies learn to distinguish vowel sounds in different languages, and they've created a computer program that can learn in the same way. We'll talk with one of the researchers about the work.

Guests

James McClelland
Professor of Psychology
Stanford University
Palo Alto, California

Related Links

• Bare-Bones Program Learns English and Japanese Vowels: Scientific American
• Computer program can learn baby talk - Yahoo! News

Segment produced by:Flora Lichtman

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