Abstract Language development is both remarkable and unremarkable. It is remarkable
because children learn the language (s) around them, signed or spoken, without explicit …

Conventionally, the extraction of hand-crafted acoustic features has been separated from the
task of establishing robust machine-learning models in speech processing. The manual …

The purpose of this study was to look at language variations in early childhood speech at
school. The method used in this research was descriptive qualitative. The subjects of this …

This article presents a developmental pathway for the acquisition of morphosyntactic
variation. Although there is abundant evidence that morphosyntactic variation is pervasive …

Adult processing of other-accented speech is fast, dependent on lexical access, and readily
generalizable to new words. But what does children's processing of other-accented speech …

This article reviews research on when acoustic‐phonetic variability facilitates, inhibits, or
does not impact perceptual development for spoken language, to illuminate mechanisms by …

Variation in speech has always been important to phonetic theory, but takes center stage in
the growing area of sociophonetics, which places the role of the social at the heart of the …

The present study analyses 3-to 6-year-old children's dialect-standard repertoires in an
Austrian-Bavarian sociolinguistic setting and investigates how far individual repertoires can …

One of the great mysteries of language acquisition is how children cope with variation in
their input. If one parent says pah-tah-to and the other parent says pah-tay-to, how does this …

Together with language, music is perhaps the most distinctive behavioral trait of the human
species. Different hypotheses have been proposed to explain why only humans perform …