phonological reductions in motherese

[Brian MacWhinney]

I am assuming that the best relevant data would come from the Brent- 
Siskind corpus.
Michael Brent has switched areas from child language, but I think he
would still be happy to talk with you.

--Brian

On Nov 14, 2007, at 10:16 AM, Margaret Fleck wrote:

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> I'm testing an algorithm that learns word boundaries from
> transcribed conversations.    A significant issue with learning
> from adult speech involves variation in word form due to
> phonological reductions (e.g. vowel deletions, spread of
> nasalization).    Can anyone point me at concrete data about
> whether child-directed, or infant-directed, speech contains
> fewer phonological reductions than adult-directed speech?
>
> I'm particularly interested in speech directed at toddlers, because
> the critical issues (from my point of view) probably involve not
> the initial extraction of a few important words but rather  the
> transition where they learn to understand the fine details of
> normal speech.
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Margaret Fleck (U. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
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