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Mireia Marimon, new Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow to join the Speech Acquisition and Perception Lab (SAP)

Her research will focus on the investigation of linguistic statistical learning skills during the first two years of life

With the project "Linguistic statistical learning abilities in bilingual and at-risk population (LINGSTATS)" Mireia Marimon, under the guidelines of Núria Sebastián Gallés, will investigate linguistic statistical learning skills during the first two years of life and how they relate to the subsequent development of language in different child populations.
 
The speech signal is a continuous flow in which, unlike written language, words are not separated. Babies keep track of the regularities present in the speech signal and take advantage of these regularities to segment it, a mechanism called "statistical learning", and that can be used to study language development. LINGSTATS, through various innovative methodologies, will contribute to the improvement of suitable neurocognitive experimental methods to test the mechanisms of learning and language processing in infants and will lay the foundations for implementing further scientific findings.