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Francisco Lacerda
Researcher at Stockholm University
Publications - 96
Citations - 3737
Francisco Lacerda is an academic researcher from Stockholm University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Language acquisition & Phonetics. The author has an hindex of 16, co-authored 96 publications receiving 3548 citations. Previous affiliations of Francisco Lacerda include University of Washington & University of Lisbon.
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Linguistic experience alters phonetic perception in infants by 6 months of age
TL;DR: This study of 6-month-old infants from two countries, the United States and Sweden, shows that exposure to a specific language in the first half year of life alters infants' phonetic perception.
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Cross-language analysis of phonetic units in language addressed to infants.
Patricia K. Kuhl,Jean E. Andruski,Jean E. Andruski,Inna A. Chistovich,Inna A. Chistovich,Ludmilla A. Chistovich,Ludmilla A. Chistovich,Elena V. Kozhevnikova,Elena V. Kozhevnikova,Viktoria L. Ryskina,Viktoria L. Ryskina,Elvira I. Stolyarova,Elvira I. Stolyarova,Ulla Sundberg,Ulla Sundberg,Francisco Lacerda,Francisco Lacerda +16 more
TL;DR: The findings show that language input to infants provides exceptionally well-specified information about the linguistic units that form the building blocks for words.
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Sound Localization for Humanoid Robots - Building Audio-Motor Maps based on the HRTF
TL;DR: A novel method to extract the notches that makes it possible to accurately estimate the location of a sound source in both the horizontal and vertical plane using only two microphones and human-like ears is presented.
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Voice Onset Time in Speech to Infants and Adults
Ulla Sundberg,Francisco Lacerda +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors measured voice onset time (VOT) in Swedish mothers' infants' IDS and in their ADS, assuming a differential weighting system of different phonetic aspects such as prosodic, consonantal and vocalic as a function of infant development.
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Universality and language-specific experience in the perception of lexical tone and pitch
Denis K Burnham,Benjawan Kasisopa,Amanda Reid,Sudaporn Luksaneeyanawin,Francisco Lacerda,Virginie Attina,Nan Xu Rattanasone,Iris-Corinna Schwarz,Diane Webster +8 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on Thai tone perception by native speakers of tone languages (Thai, Cantonese, and Mandarin), a pitch-accent (Swedish), and a nontonal (English) language.