Events can be understood in terms of their temporal structure. The authors first draw on
several bodies of research to construct an analysis of how people use event structure in …

People perceive and conceive of activity in terms of discrete events. Here the authors
propose a theory according to which the perception of boundaries between events arises …

Is children's language acquisition based on innate linguistic structures or built from cognitive
and communicative skills? This book summarises the major theoretical debates in all of the …

Fluent speech contains no known acoustic analog of the blank spaces between printed
words. Early research presumed that word learning is driven primarily by exposure to …

Since the experiments of Saffran et al.[Saffran, J., Aslin, R., & Newport, E.(1996). Statistical
learning in 8-month-old infants. Science, 274, 1926–1928], there has been a great deal of …

How do infants find the words in the tangle of speech that confronts them? The present study
shows that by as early as 6 months of age, infants can already exploit highly familiar words …

This paper presents an implemented computational model of word acquisition which learns
directly from raw multimodal sensory input. Set in an information theoretic framework, the …

We present two methods for unsupervised segmentation of words into morpheme-like units.
The model utilized is especially suited for languages with a rich morphology, such as …

A central question in psycholinguistic research is how listeners isolate words from
connected speech despite the paucity of clear word-boundary cues in the signal. A large …

Following in a psychological and musicological tradition beginning with Leonard Meyer, and
continuing through David Huron, we present a functional, cognitive account of the …