In Press
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Johnson, E.K. (accepted). Speech Perception in Infants. In the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Linguistics. Oxford University Press. [pdf]​
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2024
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St. Pierre, T., Jaffan, J., Chambers, C.G., & Johnson, E.K. (2024). The icing on the cake. Or is it frosting? The influence of group membership on children’s lexical choices. Cognitive Science, 48. doi.org/10.1111/cogs.13410
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St. Pierre, T., White, K.S., & Johnson, E.K. (2024). Experimenter identity: An invisible, lurking variable in developmental research. Infant and Child Development, 33 (1). doi.org/10.1002/icd.2357 [pdf]
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Yu, M.E., Fecher, N., & Johnson, E.K. (2024). Learning to identify talkers: Do 4.5-month-old infants distinguish between unfamiliar males? The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America Express Letters, 4(1). doi.org/10.1121/10.0024271 [pdf]
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White, K.S., St. Pierre, T., & Johnson, E.K. (2024). In support of varying approaches to the study of variation. Language Learning and Development, 20, 62 - 64. doi.org/10.1080/15475441.2023.2239787
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2023
Cooper, A., Paquette-Smith, M., Bordignon, C., & Johnson, E.K. (2023). The influence of accent distance on perceptual adaptation in toddlers and adults. Language Learning and Development, 19, 74-94. doi: 10.1080/15475441.2022.2047688 [pdf]
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Fung, P., Buckler, H., & Johnson, E.K. (2023). Effects of accent exposure on monolingual and bilingual children's early vocabulary development. Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 45, 1400-1405. Sydney, Australia. [pdf]
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Fung, P., St. Pierre, T., Raja, M., & Johnson E.K. (2023). Infants' and toddlers' language development during the pandemic: Socioeconomic status mattered. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 236. doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2023.105744
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Paquette-Smith, M., Bucker. H., & Johnson, E.K. (2023). How sociolinguistic factors shape children’s subjective impressions of teacher quality. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 76(3), 485 -496. doi:10.1177/17470218221094312 [pdf]
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Shroads, E., Yu, M., & Johnson, E.K. (2023). Finding your (child's) voice: Caregiver identification of familiar child voices. Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 45, 1459-1465. Sydney, Australia. [pdf]
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St. Pierre, T., White, K.S., & Johnson, E.K. (2023). Who is running our experiments? The influence of experimenter identity in the marshmallow task. Cognitive Development, 65. doi.org/10.1016/j.cogdev.2022.101271 [pdf]
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Yu, M.E. & Johnson, E.K. (2023). Is it all or nothing? The other accent effect in talker recognition. Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 45, 1116-1122. Sydney, Australia. [pdf]
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Yu, M.E., & Johnson, E.K. (2023). Who speaks kid? How experience with children does (and does not) shape the intelligibility of child speech. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 49(4), 441-450. [pdf] doi.org/10.1037/xhp0001088
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2022
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Desmeules-Trudel, F., Johnson, E.K., & Chambers, C. (2022). Sensitivity to fine-grained phonetic details in childhood: Differences between first- and second-language learners. In Boston University Conference on Language Development 46 Conference Proceedings, Boston, MA. [pdf]
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Fecher, N., & Johnson, E.K. (2022). Revisiting the talker recognition advantage in bilingual infants. The Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 214. doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2021.105276
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Johnson, E.K., van Heugten, M., & Buckler, H. (2022). Navigating accent variation: a developmental perspective. Annual Review of Linguistics, 8, 365-387. doi.org/10.1146/annurev-linguistics-032521-053717 [pdf]
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Kragness, H.E., Johnson, E.K., & Cirelli, L. (2022). The song, not the singer: Infants prefer to listen to familiar songs, regardless of singer identity. Developmental Science, 25(1). doi.org/10.1111/desc.13149 [pdf]
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Paquette-Smith, M., Schertz, J., & Johnson, E.K. (2022). Comparing phonetic convergence in children and adults. Language and Speech, 65, 240-260. doi.org/10.1177/00238309211013864 [pdf]
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Schertz, J., & Johnson, E.K. (2022). Voice onset time imitation in teens versus adults. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 65, 1839-1850. doi: 10.1044/2022_JSLHR-21-00460 [pdf]
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St. Pierre, T., Cooper, A., & Johnson, E.K. (2022). Cross-generational phonetic alignment between mothers and their children. Language Learning and Development, 18, 393-414. doi.org/10.1080/15475441.2021.1979401 [pdf]
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Yu, M.E., Schertz, J., & Johnson, E.K. (2022). Do I need to repeat myself? Getting to the root of the other accent effect. Proceedings of the 44th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Toronto, Canada (pp 1546-1552). [pdf]
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van der Feest, S.V.H, Rose, M.C., & Johnson, E.K. (2022). Showing strength through flexibility: multi-accent toddlers recognize words quickly and efficiently. Brain and Language, 227. doi.org/10.1016/j.bandl.2022.105083
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2021
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Fecher, N., & Johnson, E.K. (2021). Developmental improvements in talker recognition are specific to the native language. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 202. doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2020.104991 [pdf]
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Fung, P., Schertz, J., & Johnson, E.K. (2021). The development of gendered speech in children: Insights from adult L1 and L2 perceptions. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America Express Letters, 1(1), 014407. doi.org/10.1121/10.0003322 [pdf]
Newman, R.S., Shroads, E.A., Johnson, E.K., Kamdar, J., Morini, G., Onishi, K., Smith, E., & Tincoff, R. (2021). Introducing BITTSy: The Behavioral Infant & Toddler Testing System. Behavior Research Methods, 53, 2604–2614. doi.org/10.3758/s13428-021-01583-9 [pdf]
Paquette-Smith, M., Cooper, A., & Johnson, E.K. (2021). Targeted adaptation in infants following live exposure to an accented talker. Journal of Child Language, 48(2), 325-349. doi.org/10.1017/S030500092000029X [pdf]
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Saryazdi, R., DeSantis, D., Johnson, E.K., & Chambers, C. (2021). The use of disfluency cues in spoken language processing: Insights from aging. Psychology and Aging, 36(8), 928–942. doi.apa.org/doi/10.1037/pag0000652
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Schertz, J., Paquette-Smith, M., & Johnson, E.K. (2021). The independent contribution of voice onset time to perceptual metrics of convergence. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America - Express Letters, 1(4), 045205. doi.org/10.1121/10.0004373
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St. Pierre, T., & Johnson, E.K. (2021). Looking for wugs in all the right places: Children's use of prepositions in word learning. Cognitive Science, 45 (8). doi.org/10.1111/cogs.13028 [pdf]
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Yu, M., Schertz, J., & Johnson, E.K. (2021). The other accent effect in talker recognition: now you see it, now you don't. Cognitive Science, 45(6). doi.org/10.1111/cogs.12986 [pdf]
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Yu, M., Cooper, A., & Johnson, E.K. (2021). Do you speak 'kid'? The role of experience in comprehending child speech. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 43, 1514-1520. [pdf]
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2020
Cooper, A., Fecher, N., & Johnson, E.K. (2020). Identifying children's voices. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 148, 324-333. doi.org/10.1121/10.0001576 [pdf]
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Fung. P., & Johnson, E.K. (2020). Monolingual and bilingual toddlers’ reliance on the mutual exclusivity principle and statistics to learn colour labels. Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Toronto, ON. [pdf]
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Johnson, E.K., & White, K. (2020). Developmental sociolinguistics: Children's acquisition of language variation. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews in Cognitive Science, 11. doi.org/10.1002/wcs.1515 [pdf]
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St. Pierre, T., & Johnson, E.K. (2020). The development of accent-based friendship preferences: Age and language exposure matter. Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Toronto, ON. [pdf]
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2019
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Fecher, N., & Johnson, E.K. (2019). By 4.5 months, linguistic experience already affects infants' talker processing abilities. Child Development, 90, 1535-1543. doi.org/10.1111/cdev.13280 [pdf]
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Fecher, N., & Johnson, E.K. (2019). Bilingual infants excel at foreign-language talker recognition. Developmental Science, 22(4). doi.org/10.1111/desc.12778 [pdf]
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Fecher, N., Paquette-Smith, M., & Johnson, E.K. (2019). Resolving the (apparent) talker recognition paradox in developmental speech perception. Infancy, 24(4), 570-588. doi.org/10.1111/infa.12290 [pdf]
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Johnson, E.K., & White, K. (2019). Six questions in infant speech and language development. In: Human Language: from Genes and Brains to Behavior, ed. P. Hagoort. pp. 99-112, Boston, MA: MIT Press. [pdf]
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Paquette-Smith, M., Buckler, H., White, K., Choi, J., & Johnson, E.K. (2019). The effect of accent exposure on children's sociolinguistic evaluation of peers. Developmental Psychology, 55, 809-822. doi.org/10.1037/dev0000659 [pdf]
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Schertz, J., Paquette-Smith, M., & Johnson, E.K. (2019). The relationship between perceptual similarity and VOT convergence in a shadowing task. In Sasha Calhoun, Paola Escudero, Marija Tabain & Paul Warren (eds.) Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Phonetic Sciences, Melbourne, Australia 2019 (pp. 3711 - 3715). [pdf]
2018
Buckler, H., Goy, H., & Johnson, E.K. (2018). What infant-directed speech tells us about the development of compensation for assimilation. The Journal of Phonetics, 66, 45-62. doi.org/10.1016/j.wocn.2017.09.004 [pdf]
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Cooper, A., Fecher, N., & Johnson, E.K. (2018). Toddlers' comprehension of adult and child talkers: Adult targets versus vocal tract similarity. Cognition, 173, 16-20. doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2017.12.013 [pdf]
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Fecher, N., & Johnson, E.K. (2018). The native-language benefit for talker identification is robust in 7.5-month-old infants. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 44(12), 1911-1920. doi.org/10.1037/xlm0000555 [pdf]
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Fecher, N., & Johnson, E.K. (2018). Effects of language experience and task demands on talker recognition by children and adults. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 143, 2409-2418. doi.org/10.1121/1.5032199 [pdf]
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Johnson, E.K. (2018). Putting the terms 'monolingual' and 'bilingual' under the microscope. Applied Psycholinguistics, 39(4), 753-756. doi.org/10.1017/S0142716418000206
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Johnson, E.K., Bruggeman, L., & Cutler, A., (2018). Abstraction and the (misnamed) language familiarity effect. Cognitive Science, 42, 633-645. doi.org/10.1111/cogs.12520 [pdf]
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van Heugten, M., Paquette-Smith, M., Krieger, D., & Johnson, E.K. (2018). Infants' recognition of foreign-accented words: Flexible yet precise signal-to-word mapping strategies. Journal of Memory and Language, 100, 51-60. doi.org/10.1016/j.jml.2018.01.003 [pdf]
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2017
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Buckler, H., Oczak-Arsic, S., Siddiqui, N., & Johnson, E.K. (2017). Input matters: speed of word recognition in two-year-olds exposed to multiple accents. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 164, 87-100. doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2017.06.017 [pdf]
van Heugten, M., & Johnson, E.K. (2017). Input matters: Multi-accent language exposure affects word form recognition in infancy. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America Express Letters, 142(2), EL196-EL200. doi.org/10.1121/1.4997604 [pdf]
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2016
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Jesse, A., & Johnson, E.K. (2016). Audiovisual alignment of co-speech gestures to speech supports word learning in two-year-olds. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 145, 1-10. doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2015.12.002
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Johnson, E.K. (2016). Constructing a proto-lexicon: an integrative view of infant language development. Annual Review of Linguistics, 2, 391-412. doi.org/10.1146/annurev-linguistics-011415-040616 [pdf]
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Paquette-Smith, M., Fecher, N., & Johnson, E.K. (2016). Two-year-olds' sensitivity to subphonemic mismatch during online spoken word recognition. Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics, 78(8), 2329-2340. doi.org/10.3758/s13414-016-1186-4 [pdf]
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Paquette-Smith, M., & Johnson, E.K. (2016). I don't like the tone of your voice: Infants use vocal affect to socially evaluate others. Infancy, 21(1), 104-121. doi.org/10.1111/infa.12098 [pdf]
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Paquette-Smith, M., & Johnson, E.K. (2016). Toddlers' use of grammatical and social cues to learn novel words. Language Learning and Development, 12, 328-337. doi.org/10.1080/15475441.2015.1112801 [pdf]
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Sohail, J., & Johnson, E.K. (2016). How transitional probabilities and the edge effect contribute to listeners' phonological bootstrapping success. Language Learning and Development, 12(2), 105-115. doi.org/10.1080/15475441.2015.1073153 [pdf]
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Van der Feest, S., & Johnson, E.K. (2016). Input driven differences in toddlers' perception of a disappearing phonological contrast. Language Acquisition, 23 (2), 89-111. doi.org/10.1080/10489223.2015.1047096 [pdf]
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van Heugten, M., & Johnson, E.K. (2016). Toddlers' word recognition in an unfamiliar regional accent: the role of local sentence context and prior accent exposure. Language and Speech, 59(3), 353-363. doi.org/10.1177/0023830915600471
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2015
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Buckler, H., Goy, H., Kow, J., & Johnson, E.K. (2015). The cap's out of the bag: Place assimilation is common in infant-directed speech. Proceedings of 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. [pdf]
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Paquette-Smith, M., & Johnson, E.K. (2015). Spanish-accented English is Spanish to English-learning 5-month-olds. Proceedings of 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, 18. [link to journal page] [pdf]
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van Heugten, M., Krieger, D., & Johnson, E.K. (2015). The developmental trajectory of toddlers' comprehension of unfamiliar regional accents. Language Learning and Development, 11(1), 41-65. doi.org/10.1080/15475441.2013.879636 [pdf]
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2014
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Johnson, E.K., Seidl, A., & Tyler, M.D. (2014). The edge factor in early word segmentation: utterance-level prosody enables word form extraction by 6-month-olds. PLOS ONE, 9, e83546. doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0083546
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van Heugten, M., & Johnson, E.K. (2014). Learning to contend with accents in infancy: Benefits of brief speaker exposure. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 143, 340-350. dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0032192 [pdf]
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2013
Brar, J., Tyler, M.D., & Johnson, E.K. (2013). What you see is what you hear: how visual prosody affects artificial language learning in adults and children. Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics, 19, 060068. doi.org/10.1121/1.4800523 [pdf]
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Johnson, E.K., Lahey, M., Ernestus, M., & Cutler, A. (2013). A multimodal corpus of speech to infant and adult listeners. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 134, EL534-EL540. doi.org/10.1121/1.4828977
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Kooijman, V., Junge, C., Johnson, E.K., Hagoort P., & Cutler, A. (2013). Predictive brain signals of linguistic development. Frontiers in Language Sciences, 4, 1-13. doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00025
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Krieger, D., & Johnson, E.K. (2013). Six- and ten-month-old infants' perception of non-contrastive variation. Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics, 19, 060072. doi.org/10.1121/1.4799205 [pdf]
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Mani, N., Johnson, E.K., McQueen, J.M., & Huettig, F. (2013). How yellow is your banana? Toddlers' language-mediated visual search in referent-present tasks. Developmental Psychology, 49, 1036-44. doi.org/10.1037/a0029382
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Minaudo, C., & Johnson, E.K. (2013). Are two-year-olds sensitive to anticipatory coarticulation? Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics, 19, 060058. doi.org/10.1121/1.4800296 [pdf]
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2012
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Jesse, A., & Johnson, E.K. (2012). Prosodic temporal alignment of co-speech gestures to speech facilitates referent resolution. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance, 38, 1567-1581. dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0027921 [pdf]
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Johnson, E.K. (2012). Bootstrapping language: Are infant statisticians up to the job? In: Statistical Learning and Language Acquisition, eds. P. Rebuschat & J. Williams, pp. 55-90. Mouton de Gruyter. [pdf]
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Johnson, E.K., & van Heugten, M. (2012). Infant artificial language learning. In N.M. Seel (Ed.), Encyclopedia of the Sciences of Learning. Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag, 1540-1542. [pdf]
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MacDonald, E.N., Johnson, E.K., Forsythe, J., Plante, P., & Munhall, K.G. (2012). Children's development of self-regulation in speech production. Current Biology, 22, 113-117. doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2011.11.052
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Munhall, K.G., & Johnson, E.K. (2012). Speech perception: When to put your money where the mouth is. Current Biology, 22, R190-R192. doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2012.02.026
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van Heugten, M., & Johnson, E.K. (2012). Infants exposed to fluent natural speech succeed at cross-gender word recognition. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 55, 554-560. doi.org/10.1044/1092-4388(2011/10-0347) [pdf]
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2011
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Braun, B., & Johnson, E.K. (2011). Question or tone 2? How language experience and linguistic function guide pitch processing. Journal of Phonetics, 39, 585-594. doi.org/10.1016/j.wocn.2011.06.002
Johnson, E.K., & Huettig, F. (2011). Eye movements during language-mediated visual search reveal a strong link between overt visual attention and lexical processing in 36-month-olds. Psychological Research, 75, 35-42. doi.org/10.1007/s00426-010-0285-4 [pdf]
Johnson, E.K., McQueen, J., & Huettig, F. (2011). Toddlers' language-mediated visual search: They need not have the words for it. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 64, 1672-1682. doi.org/10.1080/17470218.2011.594165 [pdf]
Johnson, E.K., Westrek, E., Nazzi, T., & Cutler, A. (2011). Infant ability to tell voices apart rests on language experience. Developmental Science, 14, 1002-1011. doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-7687.2011.01052.x [pdf]
van Heugten, M., & Johnson, E.K. (2011). Gender-marked determiners help Dutch learners' word recognition when gender information itself does not. Journal of Child Language, 38, 87-100. doi.org/10.1017/s0305000909990146 [pdf]
Zamuner, T.S., & Johnson, E.K. (2011). Methodology in phonological acquisition: Assessing the joint development of speech perception and production. In B. Botma, N. Kula, & K. Nasukawa (Eds.), Continuum Companion to Phonology (pp. 16-29). Amsterdam: Continuum. [pdf]
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2010
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Johnson, E.K., & Tyler, M. (2010). Testing the limits of statistical learning for word segmentation. Developmental Science, 13, 339-345. doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-7687.2009.00886.x [pdf]
Johnson, E.K., & Zamuner, T. (2010). Using infant and toddler testing methods in language acquisition research. In E. Blom & S. Unsworth (Eds.) Experimental Methods in Language Acquisition Research (pp. 73-94). Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company. [pdf]
Schmale, R., Christià, A., Seidl, A., & Johnson, E.K. (2010). Developmental changes in infants' ability to cope with dialect variation in word recognition. Infancy, 15, 650-662. doi.org/10.1111/j.1532-7078.2010.00032.x [pdf]
van Heugten, M., & Johnson, E.K. (2010). Linking infants' distributional learning abilities to natural language acquisition. Journal of Memory and Language, 63, 197-209. doi.org/10.1016/j.jml.2010.04.001 [pdf]
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2009
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Jesse, A., & Johnson, E.K. (2009). Audiovisual alignment in child-directed speech facilitates word learning. Proceedings of the International Conference on Auditory-Visual Speech Processing, 101-106.
Johnson, E.K., & Seidl, A. (2009). At 11 months, prosody still outranks statistics. Developmental Science, 12, 131-141. doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-7687.2008.00740.x [pdf]
van Heugten, M., & Johnson E.K. (2009). The robustness of infants' early word representations. Journal of the Canadian Acoustical Association, 37, 148-149. [link]
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2008 - 2005
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Kooijman, V., Johnson, E.K., & Cutler, A. (2008). Reflections on reflections of infant word recognition. In Friederici, Thierry (ed.), In book entitled Early Language Development: Bridging Brain and Behaviour, Series Trends in Language Acquisition Research. (pp. 91-114). Amsterdam, The Netherlands: John Benjamins Publishing Company. [pdf]
Johnson, E.K. (2008). Infants use prosodically conditioned acoustic-phonetic cues to extract words from speech. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 123, EL144-EL148. doi.org/10.1121/1.2908407 [pdf]
Johnson, E.K., & Seidl, A. (2008). Clause segmentation by 6-month-olds: A crosslinguistic perspective. Infancy, 13, 440-455. doi.org/10.1080/15250000802329321 [pdf]
Seidl, A.. & Johnson, E.K. (2008). Boundary alignment enables 11-month-olds to segment vowel initial words from speech. Journal of Child Language, 35, 1-24. doi.org/10.1017/s0305000907008215 [pdf]
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Seidl, A., & Johnson, E.K. (2006). Infant word segmentation revisited: Edge alignment facilitates target extraction. Developmental Science, 9, 566-574. doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-7687.2006.00534.x [pdf]
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Johnson, E.K. (2005). English-learning infants' representations of word-forms with iambic stress. Infancy, 7, 95-105. doi.org/10.1207/s15327078in0701_8 [pdf]
Johnson, E.K. (2005). Grammatical gender and early word recognition in Dutch. In: A. Brugos, M.R. Clark-Cotton, & S. Ha (Eds.), BUCLD 29: Proceedings of the 29th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, (Volume 1: 320-330). Cascadilla Press, Somerville, MA. [pdf]
Johnson, E.K., Westrek, E., & Nazzi, T. (2005). Language familiarity affects voice discrimination by seven-month-olds. Proceedings of the ISCA Workshop on Plasticity in Speech Perception (PSP2005) [CD-ROM] (pp. 227-230). London.
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1999-2004
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Cho, T., & Johnson, E.K. (2004). Acoustic correlates of phrase-internal lexical boundaries in Dutch. In S. H. Kin & M. J. Bae (Eds.). Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP) (pp. 1297-1300). Jeju, Korea: Sunjin [CD-ROM]. [pdf]
Johnson, E.K., Jusczyk, P.W., Cutler, A., & Norris, D. (2003). Lexical viability constraints on speech segmentation by infants. Cognitive Psychology, 46: 65-97. doi.org/10.1016/s0010-0285(02)00507-8 [pdf]
Johnson, E.K. & Jusczyk, P.W. (2002). Finding words in fluent speech: How infants cope with different types of word segmentation cues. In Lasser, Ingeborg (ed.), In The Process of Language Acquisition. (pp. 193-214). Frankfurt, Germany: Peter Lang Publishing.
Johnson, E.K., & Jusczyk, P.W. (2001). Word segmentation by 8-month-olds: When speech cues count more than statistics. Journal of Memory and Language, 44, 1-20. doi.org/10.1006/jmla.2000.2755 [pdf]
Johnson, E.K., van de Weijer, J., & Jusczyk, P.W. (2001). Word segmentation by 7.5-month-olds: Three words do not equal one. BUCLD 25: Proceedings of the 25th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (Volume 2: 389-400). Cascadilla Press, Somerville, MA.
Jusczyk, P.W., & Johnson, E.K. (2000). Some implications from language development for MERGE. Brain and Behavioral Sciences, 23, 334-335. doi.org/10.1017/s0140525x0032324x
Nazzi, T., Jusczyk, P.W., & Johnson, E.K. (2000). Language discrimination by English-learning 5-month-olds: Effects of rhythm and familiarity. Journal of Memory and Language, 43, 1-19. doi.org/10.1006/jmla.2000.2698 [pdf]
Saffran, J.R., Johnson, E.K., Newport, E.L., & Aslin, R.N. (1999). Statistical learning of tonal sequences by human infants and adults. Cognition, 70, 27-52. doi.org/10.1016/s0010-0277(98)00075-4 [pdf]