creators_name: Yoshikawa, Yuichiro
creators_name: Koga, Junpei
creators_name: Asada, Minoru
creators_name: Hosoda, Koh
editors_name: Prince, Christopher G.
editors_name: Berthouze, Luc
editors_name: Kozima, Hideki
editors_name: Bullock, Daniel
editors_name: Stojanov, Georgi
editors_name: Balkenius, Christian
type: confpaper
datestamp: 2004-02-12
lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:55:25
metadata_visibility: show
title: A Constructive Model of Mother-Infant Interaction towards Infant’s Vowel Articulation
ispublished: pub
subjects: comp-sci-lang
subjects: comp-sci-speech
subjects: comp-sci-robot
full_text_status: public
keywords: phoneme acquisition, robot-caregiver interaction, constructive model
abstract: Human infants seem to develop to acquire
common phonemes to adults without the capability
to articulate or any explicit knowledge.
To understand such unrevealed human
cognitive development, building a robot
which reproduces such a developmental process
seems effective. It will also contribute to
a design principle for a robot that can communicate
with human beings. This paper hypothesizes
that the caregiver’s parrotry to the
coo of the robot plays an important role in the
phoneme acquisition process based on the implication
from behavioral studies, and propose
a constructive model for it. We validate the
proposed model by examining whether a real
robot can acquire Japanese vowels through interactions
with its caregiver.
date: 2003
date_type: published
volume: 101
publisher: Lund University Cognitive Studies
pagerange: 139-146
refereed: TRUE
citation:   Yoshikawa, Yuichiro and Koga, Junpei and Asada, Minoru and Hosoda, Koh  (2003) A Constructive Model of Mother-Infant Interaction towards Infant’s Vowel Articulation.  [Conference Paper]     
document_url: http://cogprints.org/3341/1/Yoshikawa.pdf