The Learning Objective Governs Perceptual Narrowing: A Cross-Lingual, Layer-Wise, Ten-Seed Study of Self-Supervised Speech Encoders
DGX agentarXiv:2608.00507v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Perceptual narrowing---the developmental loss of non-native phoneme discrimination in the first year of life itep{werker1984}---is a canonical developme