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Jacques Mehler
Researcher at International School for Advanced Studies
Publications - 189
Citations - 24620
Jacques Mehler is an academic researcher from International School for Advanced Studies. The author has contributed to research in topics: Syllable & Language acquisition. The author has an hindex of 78, co-authored 188 publications receiving 23493 citations. Previous affiliations of Jacques Mehler include Harvard University & French Institute of Health and Medical Research.
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A precursor of language acquisition in young infants.
Jacques Mehler,Peter W. Jusczyk,Ghislaine Lambertz,Nilofar Halsted,Josiane Bertoncini,Claudine Amiel-Tison +5 more
TL;DR: Four-day-old French and 2-month-old American infants distinguish utterances in their native languages from those of another language, and two experiments with low-pass-filtered versions of the samples replicated the main findings of discrimination of the native language utterances.
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Correlates of linguistic rhythm in the speech signal
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present instrumental measurements based on a consonant/vowel segmentation for eight languages and show that intuitive rhythm types reflect specific phonological properties, which in turn are signaled by the acoustic/phonetic properties of speech.
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The cortical representation of speech
Bernard Mazoyer,N. Tzourio,Victor Frak,A. Syrota,N. Murayama,O. Levrier,G. Salamon,Stanislas Dehaene,Laurent D. Cohen,Jacques Mehler +9 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compare regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF) while French monolingual subjects listen to continuous speech in an unknown language, to lists of French words, or to meaningful and distorted stories in French.
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The bilingual brain. Proficiency and age of acquisition of the second language.
Daniela Perani,Eraldo Paulesu,Nuria Sebastian Galles,Emmanuel Dupoux,Stanislas Dehaene,Valentino Bettinardi,Stefano F. Cappa,Ferruccio Fazio,Jacques Mehler +8 more
TL;DR: Findings suggest that, at least for pairs of L1 and L2 languages that are fairly close, attained proficiency is more important than age of acquisition as a determinant of the cortical representation of L2.
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Language Discrimination by Newborns: Toward an Understanding of the Role of Rhythm
TL;DR: This article investigated the ability of French newborns to discriminate between sets of sentences in different foreign languages and found that infants use prosodic and, more specifically, rhythmic information to classify utterances into broad language classes defined according to global rhythmic properties.