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    "pk": 26215,
    "title": "Modeling language discrimination in infants using i-vector representations",
    "subtitle": null,
    "abstract": "Experimental research suggests that at birth infants can dis-criminate two languages if they belong to different rhythmicclasses, and by 4 months of age they can discriminate two lan-guages within the same class provided they have been previ-ously exposed to at least one of them. In this paper, we presenta novel application of speech technology tools to model lan-guage discrimination, which may help to understand how in-fants achieve high performance on this task. By combininga Gaussian Mixture Model of the acoustic space and low-dimensional representations of novel utterances with a modelof a habituation paradigm, we show that brief exposure toFrench does not allow to discriminate between two previouslyunheard languages with similar phonological properties, butfacilitates discrimination of two phonologically distant lan-guages. The implications of these findings are discussed.",
    "language": "eng",
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        "short_name": "",
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        "url": ""
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    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "language discrimination; speech; acoustics; com-putational models; habituation"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Papers",
    "is_remote": true,
    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3bz942s2",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "M.",
            "middle_name": "Julia",
            "last_name": "Carbajal",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistique, ENS/EHESS/CNRS; 29, rue d’Ulm",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Radek",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "F ́er",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Speech@FIT, Faculty of Information Technology, BUT; Bozetechova",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Emmanuel",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Dupoux",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistique, ENS/EHESS/CNRS; 29, rue d’Ulm",
            "department": ""
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2016-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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