Word segmentation, or detecting word boundaries in continuous speech, is not an easy task. Spoken language does not contain silences to indicate word boundaries and words partly overlap due to...
Neurophysiological evidence of delayed segmentation in a foreign language (2007)
Snijders, Tineke M., Kooijman, Valesca, Cutler, Anne, Hagoort, Peter
Previous studies have shown that segmentation skills are language-specific, making it difficult to segment continuous speech in an unfamiliar language into its component words. Here we present the...
Kooijman, Valesca, Hagoort, Peter, Cutler, Anne
Children begin to talk at about age one. The vocabulary they need to do so must be built on perceptual evidence and, indeed, infants begin to recognize spoken words long before they talk. Most of the...
Anticipating upcoming words in discourse: Evidence from ERPs and reading times (2005)
Brown, Colin M., Zwitserlood, Pienie, Kooijman, Valesca, Hagoort, Peter
The authors examined whether people can use their knowledge of the wider discourse rapidly enough to anticipate specific upcoming words as a sentence is unfolding. In an event-related brain potential...
Kooijman, Valesca, MARCS Auditory Laboratories, Hagoort, Peter, Cutler, Anne, ...
Children begin to talk at about age one. The vocabulary they need to do so must be built on perceptual evidence and, indeed, infants begin to recognize spoken words long before they talk. Most of the...