Jenny R. Saffran's Selected References

Aslin, R.N., Saffran, J.R., & Newport, E.L. (1998). Computation of conditional probability statistics by 8-month-old infants. Psychological Science, 9, 321-324.

Morgan, J.L., & Saffran, J.R. (1995). Emerging integration of sequential and suprasegmental information in preverbal speech segmentation. Child Development, 66, 911-936.

Saffran, J. R. (2003). Mechanisms of musical memory in infancy. In R. Zatorre & I. Peretz (Eds.), The Cognitive Neuroscience of Music. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK (p. 32-41).

Saffran, J. R. (2003). Statistical language learning: Mechanisms and constraints. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 12, 110-114.

Saffran, J.R. (2003). Absolute pitch in infancy and adulthood: The role of tonal structure.  Developmental Science, 6, 37-45.

Saffran, J. R. (2003). Response: Birds do it – why not babies? Developmental Science, 6, 45-49.

Saffran, J.R. (2002). Constraints on statistical language learning. Journal of Memory and Language, 47, 172-196.

Saffran, J.R. (2001). The use of predictive dependencies in language learning. Journal of Memory and Language, 44, 493-515.

Saffran, J.R. (2001). Words in a sea of sounds: The output of statistical learning. Cognition, 81, 149-169. [click here to view]

Saffran, J. R. (2000). Non-linguistic constraints on the acquisition of phrase structure. Proceedings of the 22^nd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.

Saffran, J.R., Aslin, R.N., & Newport, E.L. (1996). Statistical learning by 8-month-old infants. Science, 274, 1926-1928.

Saffran, J.R. & Griepentrog, G. J. (2001). Absolute pitch in infant auditory learning: Evidence for developmental reorganization. Developmental Psychology, 37, 74-85.

Saffran, J.R., Johnson, E.K., Aslin, R.N., & Newport, E.L. (1999). Statistical learning of tone sequences by human infants and adults. Cognition, 70, 27-52. [click here to view]

Saffran, J.R., Loman, M.M., & Robertson, R.R.W. (2000). Infant memory for musical experiences. Cognition, 77, 15-23. [click here to view]

Saffran, J. R., Loman, M. M., & Robertson, R. R. W. (2001). Infant long-term memory for music. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 930, 397-400.

Saffran, J.R., Newport, E.L., & Aslin, R.N. (1996). Word segmentation: The role of distributional cues. Journal of Memory and Language, 35, 606-621.

Saffran, J.R., Newport, E.L., Aslin, R.N., Tunick, R.A., & Barrueco, S. (1997). Incidental language learning: Listening (and learning) out of the corner of your ear. Psychological Science, 8, 101-105.

Saffran, J. R., Senghas, A., & Trueswell, J. C. (2001).  Language acquisition by children. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 98, 12874-12875.

Saffran, J. R., & Thiessen, E. D. (2003). Pattern induction by infant language learners. Developmental Psychology, 39, 484–494.

Saffran, J.R., & Wilson, D.P. (2003).  From syllables to syntax: Multi-level statistical learning by 12-month-old infants.  Infancy, 4, 273-284.

Seidenberg, M. S., MacDonald, M. C., & Saffran, J. R. (2003). Response to a letter to the editor on the topic of "Are there limits to statistical learning?" Science, 300, 52.

Seidenberg, M. S., MacDonald, M. C., & Saffran, J. R. (2002). Does grammar start where statistics stop? Science, 298, 553-554.

Thiessen, E. D., & Saffran, J. R. (2003). When cues collide: Statistical and stress cues in infant word segmentation. Developmental Psychology, 39, 706-716.

If you are interested in learning about our research, visit the Learning Languages Lab page, the Infant Learning Lab page, or Jenny Saffran's research home page. Comments about this page can be directed to Joshua Kapfhamer at kapfhamer@waisman.wisc.edu.