Recent advances in computational modeling have led to significant discoveries about the
representation and acquisition of phonological knowledge and the limits on language …

To what extent can language acquisition be explained in terms of different associative
learning mechanisms? It has been hypothesized that distributional regularities in spoken …

Chunking theories argue that children discover their first words by extracting sub-sequences
embedded in their continuous input, but the mechanisms proposed in these accounts are …

Behavioural findings indicate that English, Mandarin and Korean speakers exhibit gradient
sonority sequencing preferences among unattested initial clusters. While some have argued …

This article examines phonological development and its relationship to input statistics. Using
novel data from a longitudinal corpus of spontaneous child speech in Polish, we evaluate …

Cross-linguistic studies on unsupervised word segmentation have consistently shown that
English is easier to segment than other languages. In this paper, we propose an explanation …

The study compares educated Poznań speech on the basis of a study by Witaszek-
Samborska (1985, 1986) and a corpus compiled 30 years later. The features of Poznań …

According to chunking theories, children discover their first words by extracting sub-
sequences embedded in their continuous input. However, the mechanisms proposed in …

An empirical corpus-based study of the likelihood of realizing the Polish nasal vowel/ɔ̃/word-
finally as [ɔm](ie of'nasal stopping') is presented. The goal was to verify whether the …

This paper presents an unsupervised and incremental model of learning segmentation that
combines multiple cues whose use by children and adults were attested by experimental …