Elissa Lee Newport é uma cientista cognitiva e psicolinguista estadunidense conhecida especialmente por suas pesquisas sobre aquisição de linguagem (em ambientes típicos e atípicos) e recuperação de linguagem após lesões cerebrais.[1][2] É professora da Universidade de Georgetown.[3]
- 1977. Mother, I'd rather do it myself: Some effects and non-effects of maternal speech style, in Catherine E. Snow & Charles A. Ferguson (eds.), Talking to Children. Cambridge University Press. pp. 109–149. Com Henry Gleitman e Lila Gleitman.
- 1989. Critical period effects in second language learning: The influence of maturational state on the acquisition of English as a second language. Cognitive Psychology, vol. 21, no. 1, pp. 60–99. Com Jacqueline S. Johnson.
- 1990. Maturational constraints on language learning. Cognitive Science, vol. 14, no. 1, pp. 11–28.
- 1996. Statistical learning by 8-month old infants. Science, vol. 274, no. 5294, pp. 1926–1928. Com Jenny Saffran e Richard N. Aslin.
- 1996. Word segmentation: The role of distributional cues. Journal of Memory and Language, vol. 35, no. 4, pp. 606–621. Com Jenny Saffran e Richard N. Aslin.
- 1998. Computation of conditional probability statistics by 8-month old infants. Psychological Science, vol. 9, no. 4, 321-324. Com Jenny Saffran e Richard N. Aslin.
- 1999. Statistical learning of tone sequences by human infants and adults. Cognition, vol. 70, no. 1, pp. 27–52. Com Jenny Saffran, Elizabeth K. Johnson e Richard N. Aslin.
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