Naïve language expert : : How infants discover units and regularities in speech / / topic editors, Jutta L. Mueller and Claudia Männel.

The advent of behavior-independent measures of cognition and major progress in experimental designs have led to substantial advances in the investigation of infant language learning mechanisms. Research in the last two decades has shown that infants are very efficient users of perceptual and statist...

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Superior document:Frontiers Research Topics
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Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
Series:Frontiers Research Topics
Physical Description:1 electronic resource (156 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • The Naïve Language Expert: Introduction to the Research Topic / Jutta L. Mueller and Claudia Männel
  • Infants' Learning of Phonological Status / Amanda Seidl and Alejandrina Cristia
  • Disentangling the Influence of Salience and Familiarity on Infant Word Learning: Methodological Advances / Heather Bortfeld, Katie Shaw and Nicole Depowski
  • Statistical Learning Across Development: Flexible Yet Constrained / Lauren Krogh, Haley A. Vlach and Scott P. Johnson
  • Advancing our Understanding of the Link Between Statistical Learning and Language Acquisition: The Need for Longitudinal Data / Joanne Arciuli and Janne von Koss Torkildsen
  • Inights on NIRS Sensitivity From a Cross-Linguistic Study on the Emergence of Phonological Grammar / Yasuyo Minagawa-Kawai, Alejandrina Cristia, Bria Long, Inga Vendelin, Yoko Hakuno, Michel Dutat, Luca Filippin, Dominique Cabrol and Emmanuel Dupoux
  • Predictive Brain Signals of Linguistic Development / Valesca Kooijman, Caroline Junge, Elizabeth K. Johnson, Peter Hagoort and Anne Cutler
  • How Each Prosodic Boundary Cue Matters: Evidence From German Infants / Caroline Wellmann, Julia Holzgrefe, Hubert Truckenbrodt, Isabell Wartenburger and Barbara Höhle
  • Prosodic Cues to Word Order: What Level of Representation? / Carline Bernard and Judit Gervain
  • Rapid Gains in Segmenting Fluent Speech When Words Match the Rhythmic Unit: Evidence From Infants Acquiring Syllable-Timed Languages / Laura Bosch, Melània Figueras, Maria Teixidó and Marta Ramon-Casas
  • Discovering Words in Fluent Speech: The Contribution of Two Kinds of Statistical Information / Erik D. Thiessen and Lucy C. Erickson
  • Statistical Speech Segmentation and Word Learning in Parallel: Scaffolding From Child-Directed Speech / Daniel Yurovsky, Chen Yu and Linda B. Smith
  • The Segmentation of Sub-Lexical Morphemes in English-Learning 15-Month-Olds / Toben H. Mintz
  • Infants Generalize Representations of Statistically Segmented Words Katharine Graf Estes
  • Acoustic Analyses of Speech Sounds and Rhythms in Japanese- and English-Learning Infants / Yuko Yamashita, Yoshitaka Nakajima, Kazuo Ueda, Yohko Shimada, David Hirsh, Takeharu Seno and Benjamin Alexander Smith.