Title :
Infant-caregiver interactions affect the early development of vocalization
Author :
Minoru Asada;Nobutsuna Endo
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Adaptive Machine Systems, Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University, Yamadaoka 2-1, Suita, 565-0871, Japan
Abstract :
Vocal communication is a unique means to bilaterally exchange messages in real-time. The developmental origin of such communication is the vocal interactions between an infant and a caregiver, and one of the big mysteries is how the infant learns to vocalize the mother tongue of the caregiver. Many theories claim to explain an infant´s capability to imitate a caregiver based on acoustic matching. However, the acoustic qualities of the infant and the caregiver are quite different, and, therefore, cannot fully explain the imitation. Instead, the interaction itself may have an important role, but the mechanism is still unclear. In this article, we review studies addressing this problem using constructive approaches based on cognitive developmental robotics.
Keywords :
"Speech","Computational modeling","Acoustics","Adaptation models","Tongue","Robot sensing systems"
Conference_Titel :
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), 2015 37th Annual International Conference of the IEEE
Electronic_ISBN :
1558-4615
DOI :
10.1109/EMBC.2015.7319600