Alan Langus

Biographic Data

ID1464980
NAMEAlan Langus
GIVEN NAMESAlan
FAMILY NAMELangus
SIGNATURELANGUS A
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Potsdam
ORCID0000-0003-3424-8162
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS7
TOTAL CITATIONS0
AUTHOR COUNT7
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2011
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX0

  • Infant preference for specific phonetic cue relations in the contrast between voiced and voiceless stops

    Open AccessMarc Hullebus, Adamantios Gafos et al.ARTICLEInfancy2025

    Acoustic variability in the speech input has been shown, in certain contexts, to be beneficial during infants' acquisition of sound contrasts. One approach attributes this result to the potential of variability to make the stability of individual cues visible. Another approach suggests that, instead of highlighting individual cues, variability uncovers stable relations between cues that signal a sound contrast. Here, we investigate the relation b…

  • Speech Segmentation with Prosodic and Statistical Cues Is Language-Specific in Infancy

    Open AccessMireia Marimon, Amanda Saksida et al.ARTICLELanguages2025References: 59

    Speech segmentation is one of the first tasks infants face when learning their mother tongue. It has been argued that statistical learning could function as a gateway to speech segmentation in the absence of pre-existing knowledge about the language to be acquired. However, infants also segment speech with prosodic cues, such as lexical stress. Here, we review recent evidence from studies that look at how infants weigh statistical and prosodic in…

  • Object labeling and disambiguation in 4-month-old infants

    Open AccessAmanda Saksida, Alan LangusARTICLEChild Development2024

    The account that word learning starts in earnest during the second year of life, when infants have mastered the disambiguation skills, has recently been challenged by evidence that infants during the first year already know many common words. The preliminary ability to rapidly map and disambiguate linguistic labels was tested in Italian-speaking infants (N = 96, 47 boys; age = 4 and 6 months, eye tracking). Infants can rapidly map linguistic labe…

  • Prosody outweighs statistics in 6‐month‐old German‐learning infants' speech segmentation

    Open AccessMireia Marimon, Alan Langus et al.ARTICLEInfancy2024

    It is well established that infants use various cues to find words within fluent speech from about 7 to 8 months of age. Research suggests that two main mechanisms support infants' speech segmentation: prosodic cues like the word stress patterns, and distributional cues like transitional probabilities (TPs). We tested 6‐month‐old German‐learning infants' use of prosodic and statistical cues for speech segmentation in three experiments. In Experim…

  • Pupillary entrainment reveals individual differences in cue weighting in 9-month-old German-learning infants

    Open AccessMireia Marimon, Barbara Höhle et al.ARTICLECognition2022

  • An Advantage for Perceptual Edges in Young Infants' Memory for Speech

    Open AccessJean‐rémy Hochmann, Alan Langus et al.ARTICLELanguage Learning2016References: 35

    Models of language acquisition are constrained by the information that learners can extract from their input. Experiment 1 investigated whether 3-month-old infants are able to encode a repeated, unsegmented sequence of five syllables. Event-related-potentials showed that infants reacted to a change of the initial or the final syllable, but not to a change of the third, internal, syllable. The information carried by the internal constituents of a …

  • Can prosody be used to discover hierarchical structure in continuous speech

    Open AccessAlan Langus, Erika Marchetto et al.ARTICLEJournal of Memory and Language2011