Jacques Mehler

26.0k total citations · 6 hit papers
159 papers, 16.6k citations indexed

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Jacques Mehler is a scholar working on Developmental and Educational Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Jacques Mehler has authored 159 papers receiving a total of 16.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 98 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology, 65 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and 44 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Jacques Mehler's work include Language Development and Disorders (72 papers), Phonetics and Phonology Research (50 papers) and Reading and Literacy Development (45 papers). Jacques Mehler is often cited by papers focused on Language Development and Disorders (72 papers), Phonetics and Phonology Research (50 papers) and Reading and Literacy Development (45 papers). Jacques Mehler collaborates with scholars based in France, Italy and United States. Jacques Mehler's co-authors include Marina Nespor, Emmanuel Dupoux, Josiane Bertoncini, Stanislas Dehaene, Juan Seguí, Franck Ramus, Marcela Peña, Anne Cutler, Thierry Nazzi and Ágnes Melinda Kovács and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Jacques Mehler

157 papers receiving 15.2k citations

Hit Papers

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A precursor of language acquisition in young infants

1988 876 citations Jacques Mehler, Josiane Bertoncini et al. Cognition profile →
Correlates of linguistic rhythm in the speech signal

1999 717 citations Marina Nespor, Jacques Mehler et al. Cognition profile →
Is numerical comparison digital? Analogical and symbolic effects in two-digit number comparison.

1990 567 citations Emmanuel Dupoux, Jacques Mehler et al. profile →
The Cortical Representation of Speech

1993 534 citations Jacques Mehler et al. profile →
Sounds and silence: An optical topography study of language recognition at birth

2003 522 citations Marcela Peña, Jacques Mehler et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Language discrimination by newborns: Toward an understanding of the role of rhythm.

1998 514 citations Josiane Bertoncini, Jacques Mehler et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Jacques Mehler France	68	9.6k	7.3k	7.2k	2.3k	1.6k	159	16.6k
Richard Ν. Aslin United States	74	12.9k 1.3×	10.4k 1.4×	7.8k 1.1×	3.2k 1.4×	879 0.5×	242	22.4k
William D. Marslen‐Wilson United Kingdom	69	9.1k 0.9×	12.0k 1.6×	6.6k 0.9×	2.8k 1.2×	628 0.4×	169	16.6k
Elissa L. Newport United States	47	10.5k 1.1×	6.0k 0.8×	4.2k 0.6×	3.0k 1.3×	559 0.3×	104	15.8k
Donald Shankweiler United States	55	9.7k 1.0×	8.0k 1.1×	4.5k 0.6×	1.2k 0.5×	2.9k 1.8×	128	15.2k
Emmanuel Dupoux France	50	4.0k 0.4×	4.1k 0.6×	3.8k 0.5×	2.5k 1.1×	1.1k 0.6×	208	9.8k
Janet F. Werker Canada	72	11.8k 1.2×	5.7k 0.8×	8.6k 1.2×	1.3k 0.6×	295 0.2×	183	17.1k
Alvin M. Liberman United States	43	4.2k 0.4×	6.0k 0.8×	8.1k 1.1×	2.4k 1.0×	763 0.5×	102	12.7k
Jenny R. Saffran United States	48	9.6k 1.0×	5.6k 0.8×	3.9k 0.5×	2.4k 1.0×	634 0.4×	121	13.4k
Brian MacWhinney United States	55	10.4k 1.1×	8.0k 1.1×	4.2k 0.6×	3.2k 1.4×	375 0.2×	239	17.3k
Willem J. M. Levelt Netherlands	52	10.8k 1.1×	13.3k 1.8×	6.5k 0.9×	2.5k 1.1×	318 0.2×	173	19.4k

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Hochmann, Jean‐Rémy, Silvia Benavides‐Varela, Ana Fló, Marina Nespor, & Jacques Mehler. (2017). Bias for Vocalic Over Consonantal Information in 6‐Month‐Olds. Infancy. 23(1). 136–151. 26 indexed citations

Langus, Alan, Jacques Mehler, & Marina Nespor. (2016). Rhythm in language acquisition. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews. 81(Pt B). 158–166. 29 indexed citations

Farroni, Teresa, et al.. (2015). Can you see what I am talking about? Human speech triggers referential expectation in four-month-old infants. Scientific Reports. 5(1). 13594–13594. 24 indexed citations

Gervain, Judit, Jacques Mehler, Janet F. Werker, et al.. (2010). Near-infrared spectroscopy: A report from the McDonnell infant methodology consortium. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. 1(1). 22–46. 238 indexed citations

Hochmann, Jean‐Rémy, Ansgar D. Endress, & Jacques Mehler. (2010). Word frequency as a cue for identifying function words in infancy. Cognition. 115(3). 444–457. 50 indexed citations

Kovács, Ágnes Melinda & Jacques Mehler. (2009). Cognitive gains in 7-month-old bilingual infants. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 106(16). 6556–6560. 394 indexed citations

Gervain, Judit & Jacques Mehler. (2009). Speech Perception and Language Acquisition in the First Year of Life. Annual Review of Psychology. 61(1). 191–218. 145 indexed citations

Mehler, Jacques. (2008). Research Without Borders. APS observer. 21(11). 1 indexed citations

Nespor, Marina, Marcela Peña, & Jacques Mehler. (2003). ON THE DIFFERENT ROLES OF VOWELS AND CONSONANTS IN SPEECH PROCESSING AND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION. 203–230. 204 indexed citations

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Christophe, Anne, Jacques Mehler, & Núria Sebastián‐Gallés. (2001). Perception of Prosodic Boundary Correlates by Newborn Infants. Infancy. 2(3). 385–394. 72 indexed citations

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Mehler, Jacques, et al.. (1995). Cognition on cognition. MIT Press eBooks. 15 indexed citations

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Mehler, Jacques & Anne Christophe. (1994). Language in the infant’s mind. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 346(1315). 13–20. 18 indexed citations

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Cutler, Anne & Jacques Mehler. (1993). The periodicity bias. Journal of Phonetics. 21(1-2). 103–108. 96 indexed citations

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Dupoux, Emmanuel & Jacques Mehler. (1990). Monitoring the lexicon with normal and compressed speech: Frequency effects and the prelexical code. Journal of Memory and Language. 29(3). 316–335. 35 indexed citations

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Mehler, Jacques & Josiane Bertoncini. (1988). Development--A Question of Properties, Not Change?.. International Social Science Journal. 40(1). 24 indexed citations

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Mehler, Jacques & Robin Fox. (1985). Neonate Cognition: Beyond the Blooming Buzzing Confusion. 112 indexed citations

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Mehler, Jacques. (1981). The role of syllables in speech processing: infant and adult data. Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences. 295(1077). 333–352. 66 indexed citations

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Bertoncini, Josiane & Jacques Mehler. (1981). Syllables as units in infant speech perception. Infant Behavior and Development. 4. 247–260. 105 indexed citations

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Frauenfelder, U., et al.. (1979). L'intégration perceptive des phrases. Bulletin de psychologie. 32(341). 893–902. 3 indexed citations

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Mehler, Jacques, et al.. (1969). Psycholinguistique, messages et codage verbal.. L’Année psychologique. 69(2). 561–598. 1 indexed citations

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