Words, more words ... and statistics
Tuesday, May 17, 2016 - 11:40
in Psychology & Sociology
Picking out single words in a flow of speech is no easy task and, according to linguists, to succeed in doing it the brain might use statistical methods. A group of SISSA scientists has applied a statistics-based method for word segmentation and measured its efficacy on natural language, in nine different languages, to discover that linguistic rhythm plays an important role. The study has just been published in the Journal of Developmental Science.