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  • 2008 - Member of Academia Europaea

Overview

Marina Nespor is affiliated with the International School for Advanced Studies in Italy, focusing on research within the field of psychology. Their work spans several subfields including developmental and educational psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, and cognitive neuroscience.

The research topics explored by Marina Nespor include:

  • Language Development and Disorders
  • Phonetics and Phonology Research
  • Reading and Literacy Development
  • Child and Animal Learning Development
  • Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism

Two recent papers exemplify their research contributions:

  • "Prosody facilitates learning the word order in a new language" (2021, Cognition)
  • "Special issue in honor of Jacques Mehler, Cognition's founding editor" (2021, Cognition)

The frequent co-authors with whom Marina Nespor has collaborated include:

  • Amanda Saksida
  • Ana Fló
  • Bruno Guedes
  • Marcela Peña Garay
  • Anne Cutler

Nespor's work has been primarily published in the journal Cognition, with multiple publications appearing there. Their research contributions have also been recognized by professional organizations, exemplified by their membership in Academia Europaea since 2008.

Best Publications

  • Prosodic phonology : with a new foreword

    Marina Nespor;Irene Vogel

  • Correlates of linguistic rhythm in the speech signal

    Franck Ramus;Marina Nespor;Marina Nespor;Jacques Mehler

  • Signal-driven computations in speech processing.

    Marcela Peña;Luca L. Bonatti;Luca L. Bonatti;Marina Nespor;Jacques Mehler;Jacques Mehler

  • ON THE DIFFERENT ROLES OF VOWELS AND CONSONANTS IN SPEECH PROCESSING AND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION

    Marina Nespor;Marcela Peña;Jacques Mehler

  • Linguistic Constraints on Statistical Computations The Role of Consonants and Vowels in Continuous Speech Processing

    Luca L. Bonatti;Luca L. Bonatti;Marcela Peña;Marcela Peña;Marina Nespor;Jacques Mehler;Jacques Mehler

  • Prosody in Israeli Sign language.

    Marina Nespor;Wendy Sandler

  • Prosodic Domains of External Sandhi Rules

    Marina Nespor;Irene Vogel

  • On clashes and lapses

    Marina Nespor;Irene Vogel

  • Bootstrapping word order in prelexical infants: a Japanese-Italian cross-linguistic study.

    Judit Gervain;Marina Nespor;Reiko Mazuka;Ryota Horie

  • Prosodic Structure Above the Word

    Marina Nespor;Irene Vogel

  • Finding Words and Rules in a Speech Stream Functional Differences Between Vowels and Consonants

    Juan M. Toro;Marina Nespor;Jacques Mehler;Jacques Mehler;Luca L. Bonatti

  • An interaction between prosody and statistics in the segmentation of fluent speech.

    Mohinish Shukla;Marina Nespor;Jacques Mehler;Jacques Mehler

  • Prosodic structure and syntactic acquisition: the case of the head-direction parameter

    Anne Christophe;Marina Nespor;Maria Teresa Guasti;Brit Van Ooyen

  • On the rhythm parameter in phonology

    Marina Nespor

  • Perceptual and memory constraints on language acquisition

    Ansgar Denis Endress;Marina Nespor;Jacques Mehler

  • Newborns are sensitive to multiple cues for word segmentation in continuous speech.

    Ana Fló;Perrine Brusini;Francesco Macagno;Marina Nespor

  • Consonants and vowels: different roles in early language acquisition.

    Jean-Rémy Hochmann;Silvia Benavides-Varela;Marina Nespor;Jacques Mehler

  • The Role of Audiovisual Processing in Early Conceptual Development

    Marcela Peña;Marcela Peña;Jacques Mehler;Marina Nespor;Marina Nespor

  • Stress-Timed vs. Syllable-Timed Languages

    Marina Nespor;Mohinish Shukla;Jacques Mehler

  • Grammar in progress

    M. Nespor;J. Mascaro

  • The "soul" of language does not use statistics: reflections on vowels and consonants.

    Jacques Mehler;Marcela Peña;Marcela Peña;Marina Nespor;Luca Bonatti;Luca Bonatti

  • DIFFERENT PHRASAL PROMINENCE REALIZATIONS IN VO AND OV LANGUAGES

    Marina Nespor;Mohinish Shukla;Ruben van de Vijver;Cinzia Avesani

Frequent Co-Authors

Jacques Mehler
Jacques Mehler International School for Advanced Studies
Anne Christophe
Anne Christophe École Normale Supérieure
Maria Teresa Guasti
Maria Teresa Guasti University of Milano-Bicocca
Mariaelvina Sala
Mariaelvina Sala University of Milan
Daniela Braida
Daniela Braida University of Milan
Franck Ramus
Franck Ramus École Normale Supérieure
Teresa Farroni
Teresa Farroni University of Padua
Núria Sebastián-Gallés
Núria Sebastián-Gallés Pompeu Fabra University
Susan Nittrouer
Susan Nittrouer University of Florida
Emmanuel Dupoux
Emmanuel Dupoux School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences

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