Browsing by Author "Mehler, Jacques"

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    • Language acquisition in premature and full-term infants 
      Peña, Marcela; Pittaluga, Enrica; Mehler, Jacques (National Academy of Sciences, 2010-02-23)
      We tested healthy preterm (born near 28 ± 2 weeks of gestational age) and full-term infants at various different ages. We compared the two populations on the development of a language acquisition landmark, namely, the ...
    • Language universals at birth 
      Gómez, David Maximiliano; Berent, Iris; Benavides Varela, Silvia; Bion, Ricardo A. H.; Cattarossi, Luigi; Nespor, Marina; Mehler, Jacques (CrossMark, 2014)
      The evolution of human languages is driven both by primitive biases present in the human sensorimotor systems and by cultural transmission among speakers. However, whether the design of the language faculty is further ...