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How Adults Understand What Young Children Say
Children's early speech often bears little resemblance to that of adults, and yet parents and other caregivers are able to interpret that speech and react accordingly.
Child-directed Listening: How Caregiver Inference Enables Children's Early Verbal Communication
How do adults understand children's speech?
Evaluating Models of Robust Word Recognition with Serial Reproduction
Spoken communication occurs in a "noisy channel" characterized by high levels of environmental noise, variability within and between speakers, and lexical and syntactic ambiguity.
Word forms - not just their lengths- are optimized for efficient communication
The inverse relationship between the length of a word and the frequency of its use, first identified by G. K. Zipf in 1935, is a classic empirical law that holds across a wide range of human languages.
