Mireia Marimon

Biographic Data

ID1465372
NAMEMireia Marimon
GIVEN NAMESMireia
FAMILY NAMEMarimon
SIGNATUREMARIMON M
AFFILIATIONSUniversitat Pompeu Fabra
ORCID0000-0001-7401-7532
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS5
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR5
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX0

  • Use of Statistical and Acoustic Cues for Speech Segmentation in French-Learning 7-Month-Old Infants and French-Speaking Adults

    Open AccessMireia Marimon, Elena Berdasco-Muñoz et al.ARTICLEOpen MIND2025

    Young infants can segment continuous speech with acoustic as well as statistical cues. Understanding how these cues interact can be informative about how infants solve the segmentation problem. This study investigates the use of acoustic and statistical cues by both adult French speakers and 6-to-7-month-old French-learning infants. Both groups were familiarized with a naturally recorded string, alternating either in duration (long-short) or in i…

  • French Speakers Prefer Prosody Over Statistics to Segment Speech

    Open AccessJoan Birulés, Mireia Marimon et al.ARTICLELanguage and Speech2025References: 61

    To segment words in unfamiliar speech, listeners are known to exploit both native prosodic cues and statistical cues available in the speech signal. However, how and when these cues are combined remains a matter of debate. Here, we studied how transitional probabilities (TPs) and prosodic phrasal boundaries are combined by French speakers to segment words. Since French does not have lexical stress, prosodic phrasal boundaries unambiguously signal…

  • 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…

  • 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