Dec 9
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Polka/etal:2008
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Polka et al. discuss the impact of physiological abnormalities on
infants' speech perception ala non-hearing infants, and those with (or
with history of) MEO. They also discuss the view that infant babble is
a reproduction/reinforcement technique used to acquire language
features. Do we have any research to suggest that the other side of
the coin, ie. physiological abnormalities in infants' speech
production, like those with cleft lip/palate for example, has an
impact on child speech production, such as children who develop speech
disorders/impairments?

Could we use the methods described by Kuhl et al.(2014) to learn more
about the interaction of speech perception and production during
infancy?

With regard to the language filter: at what age can we consider the
language filter to be "fully developed" and is there any evidence to
suggest a similar timescale of development of the filter
cross-linguistically?

The paper brings up the outlook of the research in the future. How has
it changed since then?

"Two developmental changes in infant vowels occur during the first
year: first, more vowels with full oral resonance are produced in
comparison to vowels with nasal resonance; subsequently, the infant's
vowel repertoire expands to include the point vowels (/i/, /a/, /u/)
in addition to the predominant low and central vowels."  Is this a
universal observation or can it vary by the language the infant is
learning?

How does discrimination in contrasts is measured at such young age?

What does it mean for a model (such as DIVA) to be self-organizing?