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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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What we look at when we read
TL;DR: The authors predict the pattern of adults' eye-fixations in reading predictable sentences: "fixate on the first half of phrase structure constituents" and apply cumulatively at all levels of the surface phrase structure.
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On the edge of language acquisition: inherent constraints on encoding multisyllabic sequences in the neonate brain.
Alissa L. Ferry,Ana Fló,Perrine Brusini,Luigi Cattarossi,Francesco Macagno,Marina Nespor,Jacques Mehler +6 more
TL;DR: It is suggested that neonates' brains can encode information from multisyllabic sequences and that this encoding is constrained, and subtle segmentation cues in a sequence of syllables provide a mechanism with which to accurately encode positional information from longer sequences.
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Memory in the neonate brain.
Silvia Benavides-Varela,David M. Gómez,David M. Gómez,Francesco Macagno,Ricardo A. H. Bion,Isabelle Peretz,Jacques Mehler +6 more
TL;DR: The data show that retroactive interference is an important cause of forgetting in the early stages of language acquisition, and because neonates forget words in the presence of some –but not all– sounds, the results indicate that the interference phenomenon that causes forgetting is selective.
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Newborns are sensitive to multiple cues for word segmentation in continuous speech.
TL;DR: Two independent experiments indicate that humans are born with operational language processing and memory capacities and can use at least two types of cues to segment otherwise continuous speech, a key first step in language acquisition.
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Perceptual constraints in phonotactic learning.
Ansgar D. Endress,Jacques Mehler +1 more
TL;DR: It is concluded that positional generalizations may be learned preferentially using edge-based positional codes, but that participants can also use other mechanisms when other linguistic cues are given.