Amanda Saksida
Biographic Data
| ID | 3530971 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Amanda Saksida |
| GIVEN NAMES | Amanda |
| FAMILY NAME | Saksida |
| SIGNATURE | SAKSIDA A |
| AFFILIATIONS | IRCCS Materno Infantile Burlo Garofolo |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7434-9625 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Speech Segmentation with Prosodic and Statistical Cues Is Language-Specific in Infancy
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
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…
The anatomy of specialized knowledge: Comparing experts and non-experts through associations, frames and language models
We explore specialized knowledge and aim to show that expert conceptual spaces differ from those of non-experts. This rather broad research question is addressed from different perspectives: first we collect free associations to selected stimulus terms from the domain of karstology from experts and non-experts, demonstrating that the underlying knowledge affects the associative inventory and that the overlap between both groups is low. Next, we l…
Assessment of Communication Abilities in Four Children with Early Bilateral CIs in Clinical and Home Environments with Lena System: A Case Report
Children's language acquisition is underpinned by the quantity and quality of linguistic stimulation. Early diagnosis and cochlear implantation (CI), along with a family-centered intervention, are regarded as critical factors in providing appropriate language stimulation and thus supporting successful language outcomes in children with sensory neural hearing loss (SNHL). Considering the lack of tools to assess early language skills and open issue…
Prosody facilitates learning the word order in a new language
Do children derive exact meanings pragmatically? Evidence from a dual morphology language
Number words allow us to describe exact quantities like sixty-three and (exactly) one. How do we derive exact interpretations? By some views, these words are lexically exact, and are therefore unlike other grammatical forms in language. Other theories, however, argue that numbers are not special and that their exact interpretation arises from pragmatic enrichment, rather than lexically. For example, the word one may gain its exact interpretation …
WordSeg: Standardizing unsupervised word form segmentation from text
A basic task in first language acquisition likely involves discovering the boundaries between words or morphemes in input where these basic units are not overtly segmented. A number of unsupervised learning algorithms have been proposed in the last 20 years for these purposes, some of which have been implemented computationally, but whose results remain difficult to compare across papers. We created a tool that is open source, enables reproducibl…
Phonological skills, visual attention span, and visual stress in developmental dyslexia
In this study, we concurrently investigated 3 possible causes of dyslexia-a phonological deficit, visual stress, and a reduced visual attention span-in a large population of 164 dyslexic and 118 control French children, aged between 8 and 13 years old. We found that most dyslexic children showed a phonological deficit, either in terms of response accuracy (92.1% of the sample), speed (84.8%), or both (79.3%). Deficits in visual attention span, as…
Phonological skills, visual attention span, and visual stress in developmental dyslexia
In this study, we concurrently investigated 3 possible causes of dyslexia-a phonological deficit, visual stress, and a reduced visual attention span-in a large population of 164 dyslexic and 118 control French children, aged between 8 and 13 years old. We found that most dyslexic children showed a phonological deficit, either in terms of response accuracy (92.1% of the sample), speed (84.8%), or both (79.3%). Deficits in visual attention span, as…
Phonological skills, visual attention span, and visual stress in developmental dyslexia
In this study, we concurrently investigated 3 possible causes of dyslexia-a phonological deficit, visual stress, and a reduced visual attention span-in a large population of 164 dyslexic and 118 control French children, aged between 8 and 13 years old. We found that most dyslexic children showed a phonological deficit, either in terms of response accuracy (92.1% of the sample), speed (84.8%), or both (79.3%). Deficits in visual attention span, as…
WordSeg: Standardizing unsupervised word form segmentation from text
A basic task in first language acquisition likely involves discovering the boundaries between words or morphemes in input where these basic units are not overtly segmented. A number of unsupervised learning algorithms have been proposed in the last 20 years for these purposes, some of which have been implemented computationally, but whose results remain difficult to compare across papers. We created a tool that is open source, enables reproducibl…
Prosody facilitates learning the word order in a new language
Do children derive exact meanings pragmatically? Evidence from a dual morphology language
Number words allow us to describe exact quantities like sixty-three and (exactly) one. How do we derive exact interpretations? By some views, these words are lexically exact, and are therefore unlike other grammatical forms in language. Other theories, however, argue that numbers are not special and that their exact interpretation arises from pragmatic enrichment, rather than lexically. For example, the word one may gain its exact interpretation …
Assessment of Communication Abilities in Four Children with Early Bilateral CIs in Clinical and Home Environments with Lena System: A Case Report
Children's language acquisition is underpinned by the quantity and quality of linguistic stimulation. Early diagnosis and cochlear implantation (CI), along with a family-centered intervention, are regarded as critical factors in providing appropriate language stimulation and thus supporting successful language outcomes in children with sensory neural hearing loss (SNHL). Considering the lack of tools to assess early language skills and open issue…
The anatomy of specialized knowledge: Comparing experts and non-experts through associations, frames and language models
We explore specialized knowledge and aim to show that expert conceptual spaces differ from those of non-experts. This rather broad research question is addressed from different perspectives: first we collect free associations to selected stimulus terms from the domain of karstology from experts and non-experts, demonstrating that the underlying knowledge affects the associative inventory and that the overlap between both groups is low. Next, we l…
Object labeling and disambiguation in 4-month-old infants
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…
Speech Segmentation with Prosodic and Statistical Cues Is Language-Specific in Infancy
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…
Language Development and Disorders (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Linguistics (5 works) · Reading and Literacy Development (5 works) · Artificial Intelligence (4 works) · Developmental psychology (3 works) · Natural language processing (3 works) · Artificial Intelligence (2 works) · Child and Animal Learning Development (2 works)