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List of works by Marina Nespor

A new perspective on word order preferences: the availability of a lexicon triggers the use of SVO word order

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Acoustic markers of prominence influence infants' and adults' segmentation of speech sequences.

scientific article published in March 2011

An interaction between prosody and statistics in the segmentation of fluent speech.

scientific article published on 19 June 2006

Bootstrapping word order in prelexical infants: a Japanese-Italian cross-linguistic study

scientific article published on February 2008

Can you see what I am talking about? Human speech triggers referential expectation in four-month-old infants

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Co-occurrence statistics as a language-dependent cue for speech segmentation

scientific article published on 4 May 2016

Cognitive systems struggling for word order

scientific article published in March 2010

Consonants and vowels: different roles in early language acquisition

scientific article published on 17 September 2011

Cross-linguistic differences in the use of durational cues for the segmentation of a novel language.

scientific article published on 13 March 2017

Do humans and nonhuman animals share the grouping principles of the iambic-trochaic law?

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Experience-dependent emergence of a grouping bias

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Finding words and rules in a speech stream: functional differences between vowels and consonants

scientific article published on 01 February 2008

Frequency-based organization of speech sequences in a nonhuman animal

scientific article published on 19 September 2015

How modality specific is the iambic-trochaic law? Evidence from vision

scientific article published on September 1, 2011

How to hit Scylla without avoiding Charybdis: comment on Perruchet, Tyler, Galland, and Peereman (2004).

scientific article published in May 2006

Infants' Selectively Pay Attention to the Information They Receive from a Native Speaker of Their Language

scientific article published on 03 August 2016

Language universals at birth.

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Linguistic constraints on statistical computations: the role of consonants and vowels in continuous speech processing

scientific article published on June 2005

Listening natively across perceptual domains?

scientific article published on 28 January 2016

Newborn's brain activity signals the origin of word memories

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Newborns are sensitive to multiple cues for word segmentation in continuous speech

scientific article published on 20 February 2019

On Consonants, Vowels, Chickens, and Eggs

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On the edge of language acquisition: inherent constraints on encoding multisyllabic sequences in the neonate brain

scientific article published on 17 July 2015

Perceptual and memory constraints on language acquisition

scientific article published on 31 July 2009

Prosodic structure and syntactic acquisition: the case of the head-direction parameter

Prosody in the hands of the speaker

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Rhythm in language acquisition

scientific article published on 16 December 2016

Rhythm on Your Lips.

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Spontaneous object and movement representations in 4-month-old human infants and albino Swiss mice.

scientific article published on 20 January 2015

Statistical Speech Segmentation in Tone Languages: The Role of Lexical Tones

scientific article published on May 2017

The "soul" of language does not use statistics: reflections on vowels and consonants

scientific article published on 01 August 2006

The Role of Audiovisual Processing in Early Conceptual Development

scientific article published on September 29, 2011

The quest for generalizations over consonants: asymmetries between consonants and vowels are not the by-product of acoustic differences

scientific article published in November 2008

Twelve to 24-month-olds can understand the meaning of morphological regularities in their language

scientific article published on 02 December 2019

Why is language unique to humans?

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Word frequency cues word order in adults: cross-linguistic evidence

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