Researchers Use Video Game To Study Infant Language Learning

[Francis Hult]

Gamasutra

 

Researchers Use Video Game To Study Infant Language Learning

 

Researchers have found a promising new way to study how infants learn language, utilizing a video game narrated in an "alien language," according to the Acoustical Society of America.

A team consisting of members of the Carnegie Mellon and Stockholm universities designed a game narrated with distorted sound that, while unintelligible, accurately models the complexities of natural speech. The only instructions in the game came by way of this "alien" language.

 

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