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List of works by Elissa L. Newport

Acquiring and processing verb argument structure: distributional learning in a miniature language

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Aging and the statistical learning of grammatical form classes

scientific article published on 13 June 2016

Balancing Effort and Information Transmission During Language Acquisition: Evidence From Word Order and Case Marking.

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Bilateral parietal activations for complex visual-spatial functions: Evidence from a visual-spatial construction task.

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Changing Structures in Midstream: Learning Along the Statistical Garden Path

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Children and Adults as Language Learners: Rules, Variation, and Maturational Change

scientific article published on 05 March 2019

Computation of Conditional Probability Statistics by 8-Month-Old Infants

article by Richard N. Aslin et al published July 1998 in Psychological Science

Cortical tracking of constituent structure in language acquisition

scientific article published on 05 September 2018

Critical periods after stroke study: translating animal stroke recovery experiments into a clinical trial

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Development of bilateral parietal activation for complex visual-spatial function: Evidence from a visual-spatial construction task

scientific article published on 23 November 2020

Dissociating neural subsystems for grammar by contrasting word order and inflection

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Distant melodies: statistical learning of nonadjacent dependencies in tone sequences

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Distributional Language Learning: Mechanisms and Models of ategory Formation

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Distributional learning of subcategories in an artificial grammar: Category generalization and subcategory restrictions

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From shared contexts to syntactic categories: The role of distributional information in learning linguistic form-classes

scientific article published on October 23, 2012

Getting it right by getting it wrong: when learners change languages

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Grammatical Subjects in home sign: Abstract linguistic structure in adult primary gesture systems without linguistic input

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Harmonic biases in child learners: in support of language universals

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Homotopic language reorganization in the right hemisphere after early left hemisphere injury

scientific article published on July 24, 2012

Innovation of Word Order Harmony Across Development

scientific article published on 01 January 2017

Interplay between morphology and frequency in lexical access: the case of the base frequency effect

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Is there a critical period for L1 but not L2?

scientific article published on 18 May 2018

Language learners restructure their input to facilitate efficient communication

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Learning at a distance I. Statistical learning of non-adjacent dependencies

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Learning at a distance II. Statistical learning of non-adjacent dependencies in a non-human primate

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Maturational Constraints on Language Learning

Neural systems supporting linguistic structure, linguistic experience, and symbolic communication in sign language and gesture

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Ordered short-term memory differs in signers and speakers: implications for models of short-term memory

scientific article published on 20 February 2008

Persistent difference in short-term memory span between sign and speech: implications for cross-linguistic comparisons

scientific article published in December 2006

Plus or Minus 30 Years in the Language Sciences

scientific article published on July 1, 2010

Prosodic and narrative processing in American Sign Language: an fMRI study

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Revisiting Lenneberg's Hypotheses About Early Developmental Plasticity: Language Organization After Left-Hemisphere Perinatal Stroke.

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Revisiting the Landmark Task as a tool for studying hemispheric specialization: What's really right?

scientific article published on 22 February 2019

Segmenting nonsense: an event-related potential index of perceived onsets in continuous speech.

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Short-term memory span: insights from sign language

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Statistical language learning: computational, maturational, and linguistic constraints

scientific article published on 28 July 2016

Statistical learning of adjacent and nonadjacent dependencies among nonlinguistic sounds

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Statistical learning: From acquiring specific items to forming general rules

scientific article published on June 2012

The Modularity Issue in Language Acquisition: A Rapprochement? Comments on Gallistel and Chomsky

scientific article (publication date: October 2011)

The effect of Zipfian frequency variations on category formation in adult artificial language learning.

scientific article published on 2 August 2017

The neural basis of language development: Changes in lateralization over age

scientific article published on 08 September 2020

The neural correlates of statistical learning in a word segmentation task: An fMRI study

scientific article published on 11 January 2013

What you say versus how you say it: Comparing sentence comprehension and emotional prosody processing using fMRI

scientific article published on 30 December 2019

When learners surpass their models: the acquisition of American Sign Language from inconsistent input

scientific article published in December 2004

Word Segmentation: The Role of Distributional Cues

scientific article (publication date: August 1996)