Neural Substrates of Language Acquisition

THE MIRROR-NEURON SYSTEM

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Statistical learning by 8-month-old infants

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Premotor cortex and the recognition of motor actions

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PRINCIPLES OF NEURAL SCIENCE

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The mirror neuron system

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Early language acquisition: cracking the speech code

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Towards a neural basis of auditory sentence processing

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Speech perception in infants

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Linguistic experience alters phonetic perception in infants by 6 months of age

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Maturational constraints on language learning

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Statistical learning of tone sequences by human infants and adults

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Infant sensitivity to distributional information can affect phonetic discrimination

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Language-specific phoneme representations revealed by electric and magnetic brain responses

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Foreign-language experience in infancy: effects of short-term exposure and social interaction on phonetic learning

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Computation of conditional probability statistics by 8-month-old infants

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Functional neuroimaging of speech perception in infants

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Infants′ Detection of the Sound Patterns of Words in Fluent Speech

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Cross-language analysis of phonetic units in language addressed to infants

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Socioeconomic gradients predict individual differences in neurocognitive abilities.

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The role of strong syllables in segmentation for lexical access.

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The Discovery of Spoken Language

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The bimodal perception of speech in infancy

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Phonetic learning as a pathway to language: new data and native language magnet theory expanded (NLM-e)

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Maturational Constraints on Functional Specializations for Language Processing: ERP and Behavioral Evidence in Bilingual Speakers

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Infants show a facilitation effect for native language phonetic perception between 6 and 12 months

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Acoustic determinants of infant preference for motherese speech

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A new view of language acquisition

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Expanded intonation contours in mothers’ speech to newborns

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An event approach to the study of speech perception from a direct–realist perspective

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Infants listen for more phonetic detail in speech perception than in word-learning tasks

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Is speech learning ‘gated’ by the social brain?

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What imitation tells us about social cognition: a rapprochement between developmental psychology and cognitive neuroscience

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Development of language-specific phoneme representations in the infant brain

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Speech Perception by the Chinchilla: Voiced-Voiceless Distinction in Alveolar Plosive Consonants

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

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The manifold nature of interpersonal relations: the quest for a common mechanism

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Social interaction shapes babbling: Testing parallels between birdsong and speech

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Statistical Language Learning: Mechanisms and Constraints

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Picking up speed in understanding: Speech processing efficiency and vocabulary growth across the 2nd year.

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Maternal speech to infants in a tonal language: Support for universal prosodic features in motherese.

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Speech perception in infancy predicts language development in the second year of life: a longitudinal study

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When cues collide: Use of stress and statistical cues to word boundaries by 7- to 9-month-old infants.

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Infant vocalizations in response to speech: vocal imitation and developmental change

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Infants' Ability to Learn Phonetically Similar Words: Effects of Age and Vocabulary Size

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Some Beginnings of Word Comprehension in 6-Month-Olds

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Links between social and linguistic processing of speech in preschool children with autism: behavioral and electrophysiological measures

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Fractionating Language: Different Neural Subsystems with Different Sensitive Periods

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The mirror neuron system and its function in humans

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Simultaneous Bilingualism and the Perception of a Language-Specific Vowel Contrast in the First Year of Life

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Spoken word recognition and lexical representation in very young children

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Early speech perception and later language development: implications for the “critical period”

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What's new, pussycat? On talking to babies and animals

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An association between mothers' speech clarity and infants' speech discrimination skills

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Signal-Driven Computations in Speech Processing

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The Discovery of Spoken Language

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Brain potentials to native and non-native speech contrasts in 7- and 11-month-old American infants

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PRIMIR: A Developmental Framework of Infant Speech Processing

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The Neuroscience of Language: On Brain Circuits of Words and Serial Order

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Lexical Neighborhoods and the Word-Form Representations of 14-Month-Olds

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Visual Language Discrimination in Infancy

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Language perception of 2-month-old infants shows effects of both innate mechanisms and experience

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Infants' Recognition of the Sound Patterns of Their Own Names

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Processing Linguistic Complexity and Grammaticality in the Left Frontal Cortex

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Age constraints on first versus second language acquisition: Evidence for linguistic plasticity and epigenesis

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Infants' early ability to segment the conversational speech signal predicts later language development: a retrospective analysis.

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Infants' Memory for Spoken Words

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Neuroimaging Studies of Language Production and Comprehension

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From mirror neurons to imitation: Facts and speculations

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Tuned to the signal: the privileged status of speech for young infants

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Neural Systems Mediating American Sign Language: Effects of Sensory Experience and Age of Acquisition

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Reexamining the vocabulary spurt.

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Socioeconomic status predicts hemispheric specialisation of the left inferior frontal gyrus in young children

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Infant speech perception activates Broca's area: a developmental magnetoencephalography study

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Language comprehension and cerebral specialization from 13 to 20 months

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Language Acquisition and Cerebral Specialization in 20-Month-Old Infants

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Early Speech Perception and Later Language Development: Implications for the "Critical Period"

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Two languages, one developing brain: event‐related potentials to words in bilingual toddlers

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Infant perception of non-native consonant contrasts that adults assimilate in different ways

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Lexical competition in young children’s word learning

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11‐month‐olds’ knowledge of how familiar words sound

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Language-experience facilitates discrimination of /d-/ in monolingual and bilingual acquisition of English

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The role of accentual pattern in early lexical representation

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The right hemisphere of sleeping infant perceives sentential prosody

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Early Word Learners' Ability to Access Phonetic Detail in Well-Known Words

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Learning at a distance II. Statistical learning of non-adjacent dependencies in a non-human primate

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Effects of language experience: neural commitment to language-specific auditory patterns

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Sensitive periods for visual calibration of the auditory space map in the barn owl optic tectum

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Phonological specificity in early words

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