Elissa L. Newport

Statistical Learning by 8-Month-Old Infants

Jenny R. Saffran, Richard Ν. Aslin, Elissa L. Newport · Science · 1996 · 5.7K citations

Education, Linguistics, Psychology +16

Critical period effects in second language learning: The influence of maturational state on the acquisition of English as a second language

Jacqueline S. Johnson, Elissa L. Newport · Cognitive Psychology · 1989 · 2.7K citations

Language Studies, English As A Second Language, Linguistics +17

Maturational Constraints on Language Learning

Elissa L. Newport · Cognitive Science · 1990 · 1.6K citations · Full text

Language Studies, Human Development, Linguistics +13

Statistical learning of tone sequences by human infants and adults

Jenny R. Saffran, Elizabeth K. Johnson, Richard Ν. Aslin et al. · Cognition · 1999 · 1.5K citations · Full text

Language Studies, Human Development, Psychology +14

Word Segmentation: The Role of Distributional Cues

Jenny R. Saffran, Elissa L. Newport, Richard Ν. Aslin · Journal of Memory and Language · 1996 · 1.4K citations · Full text

Language Studies, Linguistics, Language Acquisition +10