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Language Segmentation

Language Segmentation is a metalinguistic construct that refers to the cognitive ability to consciously parse spoken or written language into discrete structural units such as words, syllables, or phonemes, thereby enabling explicit awareness and manipulation of linguistic components.

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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

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Word Segmentation by 8-Month-Olds: When Speech Cues Count More Than Statistics

Elizabeth K. Johnson, Peter W. Jusczyk · Journal of Memory and Language · 2001 · 659 citations

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Literacy training and speech segmentation

José Morais, Paul Bertelson, Luz Cary et al. · Cognition · 1986 · 522 citations

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Can Infants Map Meaning to Newly Segmented Words?

Katharine Graf Estes, Julia L. Evans, Martha W. Alibali et al. · Psychological Science · 2007 · 455 citations

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Signal-Driven Computations in Speech Processing

Marcela Peña, Luca L. Bonatti, Marina Nespor et al. · Science · 2002 · 454 citations

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Authors

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    Anne Cutler

    Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Netherlands

    9 publications · 1.4K citations

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  2. JM
    James M. McQueen

    Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Netherlands

    9 publications · 952 citations

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  3. SG
    Sharon Goldwater

    University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom

    8 publications · 1K citations

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    Michael C. Frank

    Stanford University, United States

    8 publications · 478 citations

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  5. MJ
    Mark Johnson

    Brown University, United States

    7 publications · 881 citations

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Institutions

299

  1. Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics

    Nijmegen, The Netherlands

    12 h-index

    31 publications

    2.6K citations

  2. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    12 h-index

    27 publications

    2.1K citations

  3. Johns Hopkins University

    Baltimore, United States

    9 h-index

    11 publications

    2.5K citations

  4. Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati

    Trieste, Italy

    8 h-index

    20 publications

    2.7K citations

  5. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    Cambridge, United States

    8 h-index

    9 publications

    425 citations

  6. Stanford University

    Stanford, United States

    8 h-index

    10 publications

    697 citations

  7. Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistique

    Paris, France

    7 h-index

    16 publications

    1.3K citations

  8. Max Planck Society

    Munich, Germany

    7 h-index

    13 publications

    1.4K citations

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  1. Cognition

    14 publications · 1.9K citations

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  3. Journal of Memory and Language

    9 publications · 3.1K citations

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  4. Language and Cognitive Processes

    6 publications · 615 citations

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  5. Developmental Science

    6 publications · 436 citations

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