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Hochmann, Jean-Rémy; Langus, Alan; Mehler, Jacques – Language Learning, 2016
Models of language acquisition are constrained by the information that learners can extract from their input. Experiment 1 investigated whether 3-month-old infants are able to encode a repeated, unsegmented sequence of five syllables. Event-related-potentials showed that infants reacted to a change of the initial or the final syllable, but not to…
Descriptors: Infants, Auditory Perception, Language Acquisition, Syllables
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Mehler, Jacques; Bertoncini, Josiane – International Social Science Journal, 1988
Stating that the most pressing and puzzling scientific questions are questions about properties, not about change, the authors examine Piaget's and other theories of human development. Disputes the constructivist view that the initial cognitive state is one of emptiness, showing that from birth, humans react to certain stimuli in specific ways,…
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Psychology
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Dupoux, Emmanuel; Pallier, Christophe; Kakehi, Kazuhiko; Mehler, Jacques – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2001
When presented with stimuli that contain illegal consonant clusters, Japanese listeners tend to hear an illusory vowel that makes their perception conform to the phonotactics of the language. Assesses an alternate hypothesis that this illusion is due to a top-down lexical effect. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Auditory Stimuli, Cognitive Processes, Consonants