The prosodic bootstrapping of phrases: Evidence from prelinguistic infants

Statistical Learning by 8-Month-Old Infants

Jenny R. Saffran, Richard Ν. Aslin, Elissa L. Newport · Science · 1996 · 5.6K citations

Statistical Learning, Machine Learning, Language Development +25

A First Language: The Early Stages

Rod Gardner, Beatrice T. Gardner, Roger Brown · The American Journal of Psychology · 1974 · 4.2K citations

Second Language Learning, Multilingualism, Language Development +22

The CHILDES project: tools for analyzing talk

Brian MacWhinney · Child Language Teaching and Therapy · 1992 · 3.4K citations

Engineering, Speech Corpus, Multilingualism +23

Cross-language speech perception: Evidence for perceptual reorganization during the first year of life

Janet F. Werker, Richard C. Tees · Infant Behavior and Development · 1984 · 2.7K citations

First Year, Cross-language Speech Perception, Language Perception +11

Language Learnability and Language Development

Ellen Bialystok, Steven Pinker · Modern Language Journal · 1986 · 1.8K citations

Second Language Learning, Acquisition Theory, Second Language Acquisition +13