The next talk in the CDC seminar series will be given by:<br><br>Dan Swingley, University of Pennsylvania<br>Date: Wednesday, May 11, 2011, 5 PM<br>Location: Cognitive Development Center, Hattyś u. 14, 3rd floor<br><br><u>Category Learning and Speech Interpretation in Early Language Development<br>


</u><br>Abstract: It is usually assumed that the development of speech 
perception works like this: first, infants use distributional clustering
 to learn the consonants and vowels of their language; then, young 
children use these sounds to recognize and distinguish words.  On this 
account, distributional learning in infancy solves the problem of 
phonological interpretation in learning words.  I will argue on the 
contrary that infants may use words to learn speech sounds, and that 
this learning does not itself cause mature phonological interpretation. 
 This proposal suggests new ways to consider the interrelation of word 
learning and phonological learning in infancy.