BOOTPHON

A computational approach to early language bootstrapping

 Coordinatore ECOLE DES HAUTES ETUDES EN SCIENCES SOCIALES 

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 Nazionalità Coordinatore France [FR]
 Totale costo 2˙194˙557 €
 EC contributo 2˙194˙557 €
 Programma FP7-IDEAS-ERC
Specific programme: "Ideas" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013)
 Code Call ERC-2011-ADG_20110406
 Funding Scheme ERC-AG
 Anno di inizio 2012
 Periodo (anno-mese-giorno) 2012-11-01   -   2017-10-31

 Partecipanti

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1    ECOLE DES HAUTES ETUDES EN SCIENCES SOCIALES

 Organization address address: AVENUE DE FRANCE 190
city: PARIS 13
postcode: 75013

contact info
Titolo: Ms.
Nome: Chloe
Cognome: Borgel
Email: send email
Telefono: +33 1 49 54 26 63
Fax: +33 153635194

FR (PARIS 13) hostInstitution 2˙194˙557.00
2    ECOLE DES HAUTES ETUDES EN SCIENCES SOCIALES

 Organization address address: AVENUE DE FRANCE 190
city: PARIS 13
postcode: 75013

contact info
Titolo: Prof.
Nome: Emmanuel
Cognome: Dupoux
Email: send email
Telefono: +33 680581687

FR (PARIS 13) hostInstitution 2˙194˙557.00

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adult    units    grained    approximate    infants    model    words    automatic    learning    predictions    language    speech    coding    coarticulation    phonemes    directed    lexicon    rules   

 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

'During their first year of life, infants become attuned to the phonemes, words and phonological rules of their language, with little or no adult supervision. After 30 years of accumulated experimental results, we are still lacking an account for the puzzling fact that these 3 interdependent components of language are acquired not sequentially, but in parallel. Drawing tools from Machine Learning and Automatic Speech Recognition, we construct a model of this early process, test it on 2 large spontaneous speech databases (Japanese, French and Dutch) and test its predictions in infants using behavioral, EEGs and fNIRS techniques. 1. Coding. We study different ways of defining coding features for speech, from fine-grained to coarse grained, in view of the automatic discovery of a hierarchy of linguistic units. We compare this with a systematic study of the units of speech coding as they unfold in 6, 9 and 12 month old infants.. 2. Lexicon. Infants recognize some words before they know the phonemes of their language; we modify existing word segmentation algorithms so they can work on raw speech. We test the unique prediction that infants start with a large lexicon that’s quite different from the adult one. 3. Rules. Phonemes are produced as overlapping, coarticulated gestures. To untangle these context effects, we use a predictive model of coarticulation in auditory space and invert it. We test when and how infants perform reverse coarticulation. 4. Integration. The above subprojects provide only an initial bootstrapping into approximate phonemes, words, and contextual rules. We show how to iteratively integrate these approximate representations to derive better ones. The outcome will be numerically assessed on an adult directed and infant directed speech database, and compared to those of to state-of-the-art supervized phoneme recognizers. The predictions will be tested in infants learning artificial languages and in a longitudinal study.'

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