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  In order to shed lights on the cognitive representations
  likely to underlie early vocal imitation, we tried to simulate
  Kuhl and Meltzoff's experiment (1996), using Bayesian
  robotics and a statistical model of the vocal tract that had
  been fitted to pre-babblers' actual vocalizations. It was
  shown that audition is compulsory to account for infants'
  early vocal imitation performance, inasmuch as the
  simulation of purely visual imitation failed to reproduce
  infants' score and pattern of imitation. Further, a small
  number of vocalizations (less than 100!) appeared to be
  enough for a learning process to provide scores at least as
  high as those of pre-babblers. Thus, early vocal imitation
  lies in the reach of a baby robot, with only a few
  assumptions about learning and imitation.
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title: 'Simulating Vocal Imitation in Infants, using a Growth Articulatory Model and Speech Robotics'
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