Towards a Unified Model of Lexical Acquisition and Lexical Access (1996)
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@MISC{Brent96towardsa,
author = {Michael Brent},
title = {Towards a Unified Model of Lexical Acquisition and Lexical Access},
year = {1996}
}
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Abstract
Much effort has gone into constructing models of how children segment speech and thereby discover the words of their language. Much effort has also gone into constructing models of how adults access their mental lexicons and thereby segment speech into words. In this paper, I explore the possibility of a model that could account for both word discovery by children and on-line segmentation by adults. In particular, I discuss extensions to the DR model of Brent and Cartwright (1996) that could yield an account of on-line segmentation as well as word discovery. Brent, Lexical acquisition and lexical access 2 Introduction In the speech signal, there does not appear to be any acoustic analog of the blank spaces that mark word boundaries in many writing systems. Thus, the input to language acquisition is more like a sequence of utterances than a sequence of words. How young learners segment utterances and discover the sounds of words has therefore become a topic of considerable interest. A...
