Comments on: The linguistic genius of babies https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/02/16/the-linguistic-genius-of-babie/ Mon, 21 Feb 2011 14:30:39 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 By: feefuu https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/02/16/the-linguistic-genius-of-babie/#comment-499415 Mon, 21 Feb 2011 14:30:39 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/02/16/the-linguistic-genius-of-babie/#comment-499415 grant love your post thank is it

]]> By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/02/16/the-linguistic-genius-of-babie/#comment-499414 Sun, 20 Feb 2011 18:31:26 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/02/16/the-linguistic-genius-of-babie/#comment-499414 Jamie: (based on your comments) I made no comments. That’s a quote from the source of the video, their phrasing. I tend to agree with you.

Grant, love your post.

]]> By: Jamie https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/02/16/the-linguistic-genius-of-babie/#comment-499413 Sun, 20 Feb 2011 15:26:10 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/02/16/the-linguistic-genius-of-babie/#comment-499413 Thanks Grant, sounds interesting. I’ll check it out.

]]> By: Grant https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/02/16/the-linguistic-genius-of-babie/#comment-499412 Sun, 20 Feb 2011 14:27:10 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/02/16/the-linguistic-genius-of-babie/#comment-499412 There’s a longer (and wordier!) version of her talk that I included along with the one above on my blog, which contains a little more detail. It is a pity that she didn’t explain what the importance of the “statistics” is. I thought to on my blog, but then didn’t have time. Very basically, consider a stream of sound and trying to identify the recurring “motifs” that make up the basic linguistic elements. It’s not quite the learning I think you mean, but using a sort of frequency analysis to pick out the “units” that language should be built upon.

]]> By: Jamie https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/02/16/the-linguistic-genius-of-babie/#comment-499411 Sun, 20 Feb 2011 03:18:34 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/02/16/the-linguistic-genius-of-babie/#comment-499411 I found this to be somewhat disappointing. I was expecting a demonstration of statistical reasoning in infants (based on your comments), which would indeed have been amazing. If you merely replace the phrase ‘taking statistics’ with the word ‘learning’ throughout her talk you get precisely the same information about what is going on in infants’ brainsâ??none.

But I did appreciate the demonstration that machine learning is not effective and that social brain processes have a necessary role in language development. Definitely worth posting…. thank you.

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