Reviewed conference proceeding  

Carbajal, J., Dawud, A., Thiollière, R. & Dupoux, E. (2016 ). The “language filter” hypothesis: A feasibility study of language separation in infancy using unsupervised clustering of I-vectors. In 2016 Joint IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning and Epigenetic Robotics (ICDL-EpiRob), Cergy-Pontoise, France, 195-201. doi:10.1109/DEVLRN.2016.7846818

Bringing Infant Language Research Home: Developing Sensitive Online Methods for Studying Early Speech Perception

As developmental science becomes more inclusive and ecologically valid, remote and online testing of infants is gaining momentum. Studying infants in their home environments holds promise: it reduces the burden on families, increases accessibility to underrepresented populations, and may yield more naturalistic behavior compared to lab settings. However, testing preverbal infants remotely comes with significant methodological challenges. Unlike older children or adults, infants cannot press buttons or follow verbal instructions, but we must rely on indirect measures such as gaze patterns.

Disentangling the role of attention and acoustic cues in the processing of speech sounds

The availability of a linguistic contrast between speech sounds (e.g. between [d] and [t]) in a given language is often modulated by the position (e.g. within the word) in which the sounds occur. One such example is the case of lexically stressed positions, in which contrast is more likely to be available than elsewhere in the word.

Mapping the Cognitive Model for Single-Word Processing onto Brain Dynamics

Background: The human brain can process single words during different tasks and via different modalities. We can hear the word ‘apple’ and repeat it out loud, or we see the word written on a page and read it, or we think of its concept, or see an image of it, and name it out loud. These three tasks (word repetition, reading and naming) require different computations at early stages, but share others at higher, amodal, levels.
Reviewed conference proceeding  

Varadarajan, B., Khudanpur, S. & Dupoux, E. (2008 ). Unsupervised Learning of Acoustic Subword Units. In Proceedings of ACL-08: HLT, 165-168.

Book chapter  

Darcy, I., Peperkamp, S. & Dupoux, E. (2007 ). Bilinguals play by the rules. Perceptual compensation for assimilation in late L2-learners. In Cole, J. and Hualde, J. (Eds.), Laboratory Phonology 9 (pp. 411-442). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter

Reviewed conference proceeding  

Dupoux, E., Beraud-Sudreau, G. & Sagayama, S. (2011 ). Templatic features for modeling phoneme acquisition. In Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Boston, Mass..

Reviewed conference proceeding  

Boruta, L., Peperkamp, S., Crabbe, B. & Dupoux, E. (2011 ). Testing the robustness of online word segmentation: effects of linguistic diversity and phonetic variation. In Proceedings of the 2011 Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics, ACL, Portland, Oregon, 1-9.

Reviewed conference proceeding  

Jansen, A., Dupoux, E., Goldwater, S., Johnson, M., Khudanpur, S., Church, K., Feldman, N., Hermansky, H., Metze, F., Rose, R., Seltzer, M., Clark, P., McGraw}, I., Varadarajan, B., Bennett, E., Börschinger, B., Chiu, J., Dunbar, E., Fourtassi, A., Harwath, D., Lee, C., Levin, K., Norouzian, A., Peddinti, V., Richardson, R., Schatz, T. & Thomas, S. (2013). A summary of the 2012 {JH} {CLSP} Workshop on zero resource speech technologies and models of early language acquisition. In ICASSP-2013 (IEEE International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing), 8111-8115. doi:10.1109/icassp.2013.6639245

Reviewed conference proceeding  

Schatz, T., Peddinti, V., Bach, F., Jansen, A., Hynek, H. & Dupoux, E. (2013 ). Evaluating speech features with the Minimal-Pair ABX task: Analysis of the classical MFC/PLP pipeline. In INTERSPEECH-2013, 1781-1785.

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