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Role of Articulatory Gesture in Acquisition Process of Infants Vowel Imitation
Takeshi Konno, Akikazu Nishikido, Jianwu Dang (JAIST) SP2007-31
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(in English) How can infants acquire the ability to identify his/her articulation of /a/ as the same category of adult articulation of /a/ in spite of differences of acoustic characters during developmental processes of infants. In this paper, we question whether or not the infants can acquire the ability of vocal imitation even if the infants cannot judge the vowels as the same category. We construct an acquisition model of the vocal imitation based on adults' imitative actions instead of the judgments on acoustic characters. We confirmed that the model can acquire a possibility of the vocal imitation both by computer simulation and by interactive experiments with human. As a result, if an infant agent of the model has a purpose of imitation as an internal state, the agent can acquire the ability of the vocal imitation although the adults do not always response with imitative voices. Based on these results, we discuss a possibility of acquisition how the infants can judge vowels as the same category using a similarity of articulatory gestures at the vocal imitation.
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(in English) Vowel imitation / Motor theory of speech perception / Articulatory gesture / Developmental process of infants / Three dimensional articulation model / / /  
Reference Info. IEICE Tech. Rep., vol. 107, no. 165, SP2007-31, pp. 43-48, July 2007.
Paper # SP2007-31 
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ISSN Print edition: ISSN 0913-5685    Online edition: ISSN 2432-6380
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Committee SP  
Conference Date 2007-07-26 - 2007-07-27 
Place (in Japanese) (See Japanese page) 
Place (in English) Toyama Prefectural University 
Topics (in Japanese) (See Japanese page) 
Topics (in English) Speech Production, Speech Perception, Hearing and Speech, etc. 
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Conference Code 2007-07-SP 
Language Japanese 
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Title (in English) Role of Articulatory Gesture in Acquisition Process of Infants Vowel Imitation 
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Keyword(1) Vowel imitation  
Keyword(2) Motor theory of speech perception  
Keyword(3) Articulatory gesture  
Keyword(4) Developmental process of infants  
Keyword(5) Three dimensional articulation model  
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1st Author's Name Takeshi Konno  
1st Author's Affiliation Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST)
2nd Author's Name Akikazu Nishikido  
2nd Author's Affiliation Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST)
3rd Author's Name Jianwu Dang  
3rd Author's Affiliation Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST)
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Paper # SP2007-31 
Volume (vol) vol.107 
Number (no) no.165 
Page pp.43-48 
#Pages 6 
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