LANGUAGE-SPECIFIC PHONETIC PRODUCTION PATTERNS IN THE FIRST YEAR OF LIFE
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
The production of sounds by infants from 1 to 12 months is evaluated according to place of articulation to verify the hypothesis that infants' production becomes language-specific towards the end of the first year. This study is based on an analysis of 4,499 sounds produced by 19 infants raised in one of 3 linguistic contexts: Canadian English, Moroccan Arabic, and Bai. Our results reveal that towards the end of the first year (10-12 months), infants show a preference for producing sounds at places of articulation that reflect their linguistic background, a finding that parallels results obtained in perceptual studies. Contrary to our expectations, however, the infants ' production at the end of the first year, albeit language-specific, does not directly correspond to the adult model. In the case of Bai infants, in particular, it was found that these infants use laryngeal constriction at a segmental level, while this phonetic feature is not employed in the adult model at a segmental level but at a syllable/word level for tone register contrasts.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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