@InProceedings{Minematsu2010_569,
<br/>   author = {Nobuaki Minematsu},
<br/>   booktitle = {Studientexte zur Sprachkommunikation: Elektronische Sprachsignalverarbeitung 2010},
<br/>   title = {Human Speech Model based on Information Separation},
<br/>   year = {2010},
<br/>   editor = {Hansjörg Mixdorff},
<br/>   month = mar,
<br/>   pages = {273--280},
<br/>   publisher = {TUDpress, Dresden},
<br/>   abstract  = {This paper points out that no existing technically-implemented speech
model is adequate enough to describe one of the most fundamental and unique capacities
of human speech processing. Language acquisition of infants is based on
vocal imitation [1] but they don’t impersonate their parents and imitate only the
linguistic and para-linguistic aspects of the parents’ utterances. The vocal imitation
is found only in a few species of animals: birds, dolphins, and whales, but
their imitation is acoustic imitation [2]. How to represent exclusively what in the
utterances human infants imitate? An adequate speech model for it should be independent
of the extra-linguistic features and represents only the linguistic and paralinguistc
aspects. We already proposed a new speech representation [3], called
speech structure, which is proved mathematically to be invariant with any kind of
transformation. Its extremely high independence of speaker differences was shown
experimentally [4, 5, 6]. In this paper, by reviewing studies of evolutionary anthropology
and those of language disorders, we discuss the theoretical validity of the
new model to describe the human-unique capacity of speech processing.},
<br/>   isbn = {978-3-941298-85-9},
<br/>   issn = {0940-6832},
<br/>   keywords = {Language Acquisition and L2 Learning},
<br/>   url = {https://www.essv.de/pdf/2010_273_280.pdf},
<br/>}