Perrine Brusini

Biographic Data

ID8758826
NAMEPerrine Brusini
GIVEN NAMESPerrine
FAMILY NAMEBrusini
SIGNATUREBRUSINI P
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Cambridge
ORCID0000-0003-0703-7765
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS7
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR7
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2010
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
H-INDEX0

  • Neural phase angle from two months when tracking speech and non-speech rhythm linked to language performance from 12 to 24 months

    Open AccessÁine Ní Choisdealbha, Adam Attaheri et al.ARTICLEBrain and Language2023

    Atypical phase alignment of low-frequency neural oscillations to speech rhythm has been implicated in phonological deficits in developmental dyslexia. Atypical phase alignment to rhythm could thus also characterize infants at risk for later language difficulties. Here, we investigate phase-language mechanisms in a neurotypical infant sample. 122 two-, six- and nine-month-old infants were played speech and non-speech rhythms while EEG was recorded…

  • Machine learning accurately classifies neural responses to rhythmic speech vs. non-speech from 8-week-old infant EEG

    Open AccessSamuel Gibbon, Adam Attaheri et al.ARTICLEBrain and Language2021

    Currently there are no reliable means of identifying infants at-risk for later language disorders. Infant neural responses to rhythmic stimuli may offer a solution, as neural tracking of rhythm is atypical in children with developmental language disorders. However, infant brain recordings are noisy. As a first step to developing accurate neural biomarkers, we investigate whether infant brain responses to rhythmic stimuli can be classified reliabl…

  • The Acquisition of Noun and Verb Categories by Bootstrapping From a Few Known Words

    Open AccessPerrine Brusini, Olga Seminck et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Psychology2021

    While many studies have shown that toddlers are able to detect syntactic regularities in speech, the learning mechanism allowing them to do this is still largely unclear. In this article, we use computational modeling to assess the plausibility of a context-based learning mechanism for the acquisition of nouns and verbs. We hypothesize that infants can assign basic semantic features, such as “is-an-object” and/or “is-an-action,” to the very first…

  • Bootstrapping lexical and syntactic acquisition

    Perrine Brusini, Antônio De Carvalho et al.CHAPTERSources of Variation in First…2018

    How does language acquisition start? Having access to words and their meaning should help infants to learn about syntax, but learning about word meaning would be facilitated if infants had access to syntactic structure ( Gleitman 1990 ). Phrasal prosody and function words may bootstrap lexical and syntactic acquisition. Infants have access to phonological phrases, and they use these to constrain the syntactic analysis of utterances by 18 months. …

  • Listeners Exploit Syntactic Structure On-Line to Restrict Their Lexical Search to a Subclass of Verbs

    Open AccessPerrine Brusini, Mélanie Brun et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Psychology2015

    Many experiments have shown that listeners actively build expectations about up-coming words, rather than simply waiting for information to accumulate. The online construction of a syntactic structure is one of the cues that listeners may use to construct strong expectations about the possible words they will be exposed to. For example, speakers of verb-final languages use pre-verbal arguments to predict on-line the kind of arguments that are lik…

  • Toddlers Default to Canonical Surface-to-Meaning Mapping When Learning Verbs

    Open AccessIsabelle Dautriche, Alejandrina Cristia et al.ARTICLEChild Development2013

    Previous work has shown that toddlers readily encode each noun in the sentence as a distinct argument of the verb. However, languages allow multiple mappings between form and meaning that do not fit this canonical format. Two experiments examined French 28-month-olds' interpretation of right-dislocated sentences (nouni -verb, nouni) where the presence of clear, language-specific cues should block such a canonical mapping. Toddlers (N = 96) interp…

  • Chapter 3. Early bootstrapping of syntactic acquisition

    Anne Christophe, Anne‐caroline Fiévet et al.CHAPTERLanguage acquisition across…2010

    Infants acquiring language have to learn about the lexicon, the phonology, and the syntax of their native language, among others. For each of these domains, being able to rely on knowledge from the other domains would simplify the learner’s task. For instance, having access to words and their meaning should help infants to learn about syntax, but learning about the meaning of words would be greatly facilitated if infants had access to some aspect…