Hervé Bredin

Biographic Data

ID8759250
NAMEHervé Bredin
GIVEN NAMESHervé
FAMILY NAMEBredin
SIGNATUREBREDIN H
AFFILIATIONSCentre National de la Recherche Scientifique
ORCID0000-0002-3739-925X
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS5
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR5
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX0

  • Simulating Early Phonetic and Word Learning Without Linguistic Categories

    Open AccessMarvin Lavechin, Maureen de Seyssel et al.ARTICLEDevelopmental Science2025

    Before they even talk, infants become sensitive to the speech sounds of their native language and recognize the auditory form of an increasing number of words. Traditionally, these early perceptual changes are attributed to an emerging knowledge of linguistic categories such as phonemes or words. However, there is growing skepticism surrounding this interpretation due to limited evidence of category knowledge in infants. Previous modeling work ha…

  • Modeling early phonetic acquisition from child-centered audio data

    Open AccessMarvin Lavechin, Maureen de Seyssel et al.ARTICLECognition2024

  • Modeling early phonetic acquisition from child-centered audio data

    Marvin Lavechin, Maureen de Seyssel et al.PREPRINT2023

    Infants learn their native language(s) at an amazing speed. Before they even talk, their perception adapts to the language(s) they hear. However, the mechanisms responsible for this perceptual attunement and the circumstances in which it takes place remain unclear. This paper presents the first attempt to study perceptual attunement using ecological child-centered audio data. We show that a simple prediction algorithm exhibits perceptual attuneme…

  • Statistical learning models of early phonetic acquisition struggle with child-centered audio data

    Marvin Lavechin, Maureen de Seyssel et al.PREPRINT2022

    Infants learn their native language(s) at an amazing speed. Before they even talk, their perception adapts to the language(s) they hear. However, the mechanisms responsible for this perceptual attunement still remain unclear. A long tradition in linguistics points to the importance of specialized language mechanisms that would allow us to quickly and effortlessly learn from the language(s) we are exposed to. However, the currently dominant explan…

  • Can statistical learning bootstrap early language acquisition? A modeling investigation

    Marvin Lavechin, Maureen de Seyssel et al.PREPRINT2022

    Before they even produce their first word, infants start developing a language-specific perception, recognize the auditory form of frequent words, and develop a rudimentary knowledge of grammatical categories. A major question in language development is: what mechanisms are responsible for the effortless learning infants demonstrate? In-laboratory experiments have shown that young infants are exquisitely sensitive to fine-grained statistical regu…