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Elissa L. Newport

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Elissa L. Newport's Degrees

PhD Psychology University of Pennsylvania
Bachelors Psychology University of California, San Diego

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According to Wikipedia, Elissa Lee Newport is a professor of neurology and director of the Center for Brain Plasticity and Recovery at Georgetown University. She specializes in language acquisition and developmental psycholinguistics, focusing on the relationship between language development and language structure, and most recently on the effects of pediatric stroke on the organization and recovery of language.

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Statistical Learning by 8-Month-Old Infants (1996) (4015)
Critical period effects in second language learning: The influence of maturational state on the acquisition of English as a second language (1989) (2651)
Statistical learning of tone sequences by human infants and adults (1999) (1221)
WORD SEGMENTATION : THE ROLE OF DISTRIBUTIONAL CUES (1996) (1197)
Computation of Conditional Probability Statistics by 8-Month-Old Infants (1998) (1063)
Maturational Constraints on Language Learning (1990) (923)
Mother, Id rather do it myself: Some effects and non-effects of maternal speech style (1977) (715)
Learning at a distance I. Statistical learning of non-adjacent dependencies (2004) (685)
Incidental Language Learning: Listening (and Learning) Out of the Corner of Your Ear (1997) (587)
Regularizing Unpredictable Variation: The Roles of Adult and Child Learners in Language Formation and Change (2005) (516)
Critical period effects on universal properties of language: The status of subjacency in the acquisition of a second language (1991) (460)
Segmentation of the speech stream in a non-human primate: statistical learning in cotton-top tamarins (2001) (420)
The acquisition of American Sign Language. (1985) (404)
Statistical Learning (2012) (401)
Getting it right by getting it wrong: When learners change languages (2009) (330)
The current status of the motherese hypothesis (1984) (316)
When learners surpass their models: The acquisition of American Sign Language from inconsistent input (2004) (301)
Structural packaging in the input to language learning: Contributions of prosodic and morphological marking of phrases to the acquisition of language (1987) (299)
Distant melodies: statistical learning of nonadjacent dependencies in tone sequences. (2004) (287)
The distributional structure of grammatical categories in speech to young children (2002) (285)
Constraints on learning and their role in language acquisition: Studies of the acquisition of American sign language (1988) (260)
Statistical Learning of Syntax: The Role of Transitional Probability (2007) (239)
MOTHERESE: THE SPEECH OF MOTHERS TO YOUNG CHILDREN. (1975) (213)
The Role of Stress and Position in Determining First Words (1992) (213)
Acquiring and processing verb argument structure: Distributional learning in a miniature language (2008) (211)
The role of constituent structure in the induction of an artificial language (1981) (199)
Segmenting nonsense: an event-related potential index of perceived onsets in continuous speech (2002) (193)
Learning at a distance II. Statistical learning of non-adjacent dependencies in a non-human primate (2004) (192)
The neural correlates of statistical learning in a word segmentation task: An fMRI study (2013) (177)
Language learners restructure their input to facilitate efficient communication (2012) (175)
Critical thinking about critical periods: Perspectives on a critical period for language acquisition. (2001) (151)
Changing Structures in Midstream: Learning Along the Statistical Garden Path (2009) (149)
Nativism, empiricism, and the development of knowledge. (1998) (144)
Statistical learning of adjacent and nonadjacent dependencies among nonlinguistic sounds (2009) (141)
Short-term memory span: insights from sign language (2004) (138)
Out of the hands of babes: On a possible sign advantage in language acquisition (1990) (120)
From shared contexts to syntactic categories: The role of distributional information in learning linguistic form-classes (2013) (107)
Argument Structure in Nicaraguan Sign Language : The Emergence of Grammatical Devices (2004) (97)
Grammatical Subjects in home sign: Abstract linguistic structure in adult primary gesture systems without linguistic input. (2005) (97)
Chapter 1 The Invention of Language by Children: Environmental and Biological Influences on the Acquisition of Language (2005) (84)
Indeterminacy in the Grammar of Adult Language Learners (1996) (81)
Harmonic biases in child learners: In support of language universals (2015) (79)
Innately Constrained Learning: Blending Old and New Approaches to Language Acquisition (2001) (75)
The neural basis of language development: Changes in lateralization over age (2020) (73)
Facilitating the acquisition of syntax with cross-sentential cues to phrase structure (1989) (69)
Dissociating neural subsystems for grammar by contrasting word order and inflection (2010) (67)
Balancing Effort and Information Transmission During Language Acquisition: Evidence From Word Order and Case Marking (2017) (67)
Sign Language Research at the Millennium (2000) (59)
Neural systems supporting linguistic structure, linguistic experience, and symbolic communication in sign language and gesture (2015) (57)
Revisiting Lenneberg's Hypotheses About Early Developmental Plasticity: Language Organization After Left-Hemisphere Perinatal Stroke. (2017) (54)
Critical Period After Stroke Study (CPASS): A phase II clinical trial testing an optimal time for motor recovery after stroke in humans (2021) (52)
Ordered short-term memory differs in signers and speakers: Implications for models of short-term memory (2008) (52)
Testing the Tolerance Principle: Children form productive rules when it is more computationally efficient to do so (2016) (51)
Distributional Language Learning: Mechanisms and Models of ategory Formation. (2014) (50)
Persistent Difference in Short-Term Memory Span Between Sign and Speech (2006) (44)
Critical periods after stroke study: translating animal stroke recovery experiments into a clinical trial (2015) (43)
Prosodic and narrative processing in American Sign Language: An fMRI study (2010) (41)
Interplay between morphology and frequency in lexical access: The case of the base frequency effect (2011) (38)
Novelty and regularization : the effect of novel instances on rule formation (2005) (35)
The Development of Language from Non-native Linguistic Input (2002) (34)
The invention of language by children: Environmental and biological influences (2002) (34)
Adaptation of speech by nonspeech: evidence for complex acoustic cue detectors. (1979) (33)
Statistical language learning: computational, maturational, and linguistic constraints (2016) (33)
Bilateral parietal activations for complex visual-spatial functions: Evidence from a visual-spatial construction task (2017) (32)
Mother I'd rather do it myself: the contribution of selected child listener variables' (1977) (31)
The Emergence of Grammatical Categories in Home Sign: Evidence from Family-based Gesture Systems in Nicaragua (2002) (29)
Perception, cognition, and language : essays in honor of Henry and Lila Gleitman (2000) (28)
Mechanisms Underlying Language Acquisition: Benefits From a Comparative Approach (2006) (27)
Mother, I’d Rather Do It Myself (2020) (25)
Homotopic language reorganization in the right hemisphere after early left hemisphere injury (2012) (24)
Distributional Regularities of Form Class in Speech to Young Childre (1995) (23)
Language Development, Critical Periods in (2006) (22)
The role of distributional information in linguistic category formation (2009) (21)
What you say versus how you say it: Comparing sentence comprehension and emotional prosody processing using fMRI (2019) (19)
Cortical tracking of constituent structure in language acquisition (2018) (19)
The Effect of Zipfian Frequency Variations on Category Formation in Adult Artificial Language Learning (2017) (19)
The Modularity Issue in Language Acquisition: A Rapprochement? Comments on Gallistel and Chomsky (2011) (18)
Functional Biases in Language Learning: Evidence from Word Order and Case-Marking Interaction (2011) (18)
Aging and the statistical learning of grammatical form classes. (2016) (16)
Novel words in novel contexts: The role of distributional information in formclass category learning (2010) (14)
Segmenting a continuous acoustic speech stream: Serial learning in cotton-top tamarin monkeys (2001) (13)
The Emergence of Semantic Relations in ASL. Papers and Reports on Child Language Development, No. 13. (1977) (13)
Children and Adults as Language Learners: Rules, Variation, and Maturational Change (2019) (12)
Creolization : Could Adults Really Have Done It All ? (1999) (12)
Distributional learning of subcategories in an artificial grammar: Category generalization and subcategory restrictions. (2017) (11)
Morpheme Segmentation from Distributional Information (2010) (10)
Innovation of Word Order Harmony Across Development (2017) (9)
Signed or Spoken, Children need Natural Languages (2006) (9)
Plus or Minus 30 Years in the Language Sciences (2010) (9)
Maternal Self-Repetition and the Child's Acquisition of Language. Papers and Reports on Child Language Development, No. 13. (1977) (8)
TONAL PROFILES OF ARTIFICIAL SCALES : IMPLICATIONS FOR MUSIC LEARNING (2002) (8)
Spoken language comprehension activates the primary visual cortex (2020) (7)
Probability-matching in 10-month-old infants (2011) (6)
in a non-human primate (2004) (6)
Communicative biases shape structures of newly acquired languages (2013) (6)
Revisiting the Landmark Task as a tool for studying hemispheric specialization: What's really right? (2019) (6)
Development of bilateral parietal activation for complex visual-spatial function: Evidence from a visual-spatial construction task. (2020) (5)
Learning a Language from Inconsistent Input: Regularization in Child and Adult Learners (2020) (5)
Exploring the Role of Representation in Models of Grammatical Category Acquisition (2012) (4)
Is there a critical period for L1 but not L2? (2018) (4)
Functional connectivity hemispheric contrast (FC-HC): A new metric for language mapping (2021) (4)
Language and developmental plasticity after perinatal stroke (2022) (4)
Statistical learning of non-linguistic stimuli by 8-month olds (1998) (2)
Developmental changes in neural lateralization for visual-spatial function: Evidence from a line-bisection task. (2021) (1)
5 Mother , Id rather do it myself : some effects and non-effects of maternal speech stylet (1)
Short-Term Memory In Second Language Learners of ASL The Competing Effects of Modality and Mother Tongue (2004) (1)
Primary visual cortex is activated by spoken language comprehension (2021) (1)
A Weak Shadow of Early Life Language Processing Persists in the Right Hemisphere of the Mature Brain (2022) (1)
Statistical Learning in Language, Vision, and Comparative Cognition: What have we learned, where we going? (2006) (1)
The neural trajectory of adult second language acquisition:An fMRI study of learning a reduced natural language (2015) (1)
Privileged computations for closed-class items in language acquisition (2019) (1)
Age Effects in the Acquisition of Phonological Variation (2020) (1)
Effects of healthy aging and left hemisphere stroke on statistical language learning (2022) (0)
Biased statistical learning of closed-class items (2021) (0)
Thanks to our guest reviewers (1992) (0)
PsychocompLA-2007 Psychocomputational Models of Human Language Acquisition (2007) (0)
The Sufficiency Principle: Predicting when children will regularize inconsistent language variation (2017) (0)
Governing Board Symposium The Biology of Language in the 21st Century (2011) (0)
CogSci 2008 30th Anniversary Symposia - eScholarship (2008) (0)
Mental computations underlying morphosyntax acquisition (2017) (0)
In Memoriam: Alexander W. Dromerick Jr, MD, July 1, 1958-August 21, 2021. (2022) (0)
Lila Gleitman—trailblazer in cognitive science, beloved mentor, incandescent wit—dies at 91 (2022) (0)
Non-Concatenative Morpheme Segmentation in Adults and Children (2021) (0)
The Role of Theories in Conceptual Coherence Gregory L Murphy and Douglas L Medin (1999) (0)
The Editor's Department (2015) (0)
CogSci 2008 30th Anniversary Symposia (2008) (0)
Interpreting the CPASS Trial: Do Not Shift Motor Therapy to the Subacute Phase (2022) (0)
Developmental Plasticity and Language Reorganization After Pediatric Stroke (2018) (0)

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