Publications

Peer-reviewed

Birulés, J., Marimon, M., Duroyal, A., Vilain, A., Bailly, G & Fort, M. (2025). French speakers prefer prosody over statistics. Language and Speech. 

Marimon, M., Saksida, A., Höhle, B. & Langus, A. (2025). Speech segmentation with prosodic and statistical cues is language specific in infancy. Languages, 10.

Marimon, M., Berdasco, E., Höhle, B. & Nazzi, T. (2025). Use of statistical and acoustic cues for speech segmentation in French-learning 7-month-old infants and French-speaking adults. Open Mind: Discoveries in Cognitive Science. https://doi.org/10.1162/opmi_a_00184

Marimon, M., Langus, A. & Höhle, B. (2024). Prosody outweighs statistics in 6-month-old German-learning infants' speech segmentation. Infancy, 1-21. [OSF Project here]. https://doi.org/10.1111/infa.12593

Marimon, M. & Höhle, B. (2022). Testing prosodic development with the Headturn Preference Procedure: a test-retest reliability study. Infant and Child Development. [OSF Project here]. Open Access article: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/icd.2362 

Langus, A., Marimon, M., Höhle, B. (in press). Exploring word segmentation from infancy to adulthood with pupillometry. Book chapter in "Rhythms of Speech and Language" Editors: Lars Meyer, Antje Strauss. Cambridge University Press. 

Marimon, M., Höhle, B. & Langus, A. (2022). Pupillary entrainment reveals individual differences in cue weighting in 9-month-old German-learning infants. Cognition, 224. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2022.105054 [awarded Paper of the Month by the Research Focus Cognitive Sciences - March 2022]

Marimon, M., Hoffman, A., Männel, C., Veríssimo, J., Friederici, A.D., Höhle, B. & Wartenburger, I. (2021). Children's learning of Non-Adjacent Dependencies using a web-based computer game setting. Frontiers in Psychology. [Project in OSF is here]. Open Access article: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.734877

Marimon Tarter, M. (2019). Word segmentation in German-learning infants and German-speaking adults: prosodic and statistical cues. Doctoral Dissertation. [link] [Magna cum laude]

García-Castro, G., Marimon, M., Santolín, C. & Sebastián-Gallés, N. (unpublished, 2019). Catalan and Spanish natural speech segmentation at 8 months of age. OSF Storage. [link] 

Marimon Tarter, M. (2015). Is the lexicon affecting early word segmentation? A segmentation task at 8 months of age. Master Thesis. 

Marimon, M. (2015). Review of the book Linguistic Variation in the Minimalist Framework, edited by M. Carme Picallo. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Isogloss Journal 1, 139-141. [link]

In prep/under review

Bogaerts, L., Crepaldi, D., Zhou, H., Bautista, A., Brown, K., Chang, L. W., ... Marimon, M..… Siegelman, N. (PsyArxiv Preprint, 2025, September 21). Time for Consensus: Open Challenges and Recommendations for Research on Individual Differences in Statistical Learning. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/eh7fm_v1

Piracún-Garcia, L. & Marimon, M. (under review). Lexical stress perception of trisyllabic pseudowords by Spanish-learning infants growing up in Colombia.

Marimon, M., Saksida, A., Höhle, B. & Langus, A. (under review). Speech segmentation with prosodic and statistical cues is language specific in infancy.

Marimon, M. Männel, Friederici, Höhle & Wartenburger, I. (under review). Learning Linguistic Non-Adjacent Dependencies in Adulthood: Implicit and Explicit Knowledge. 

Marimon, M., Mateu, V., Sundara, M. & Höhle, B. (in prep). When do German-learning infants discover morphological suffixes?

Marimon, M., Boll-Avetisyan, N. & Bergmann, C. (in prep). Is Infant-directed speech preference robust to setting? A comparison between lab- and web-based measures. 

Invited talks

Marimon, M. Exploring statistical learning with pupillometry. Utrecht University, Faculty of Humanities. The Netherlands, 7th February, 2025.

Marimon, M. Workshop: Discovering eye-tracking research in linguistics. Department of English and German studies, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain, 17th January, 2025. 

Marimon, M. Cross-linguistic differences in statistical word segmentation. Institut für Deutsche Philologie, Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München, Munich, Germany, 14th August, 2024.

Marimon, M. Statistical learning cues in German-learning infants' input. USC Language Development Lab, USC Dornsife, University of Southern California. 2nd December, 2022.

Marimon, M. Word segmentation in German-learning infants: The role of prosody and its interaction with statistical learning. Prosodic Studies Group (GrEP), Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain. 30th May, 2022. 

Wartenburger, I. & Marimon, M. Prosodic cues in language comprehension and perception in infancy. Leibniz-Institut für Neurobiologie, Magdeburg, Germany. 9th May, 2022. 

Maas, D. & Marimon, M. Funding opportunities for doctoral candidates. Research in Europe: Information Event for Junior Researchers. University of Potsdam. 4th May, 2022.

Marimon, M. Learning of Non-Adjacent Dependencies in a web-based computer game setting. Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Graduate School of Empirical and Applied Linguistics, Münster, Germany. 7th July, 2021.

Media / Press / Interviews

Mireia Marimon, psicolingüista: "En els primers mesos de vida podem distingir molts més sons que un adult" https://www.diaridebarcelona.cat/w/entrevista-mireia-marimon-primers-mesos-vida-podem-distingir-molts-mes-sons-que-adult?redirect=%2F

Mireia Marimon, new Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow to join the Speech Acquisition and Perception Lab (SAP) https://www.upf.edu/web/mdm-dtic/blog/-/blogs/mireia-marimon-new-marie-sklodowska-curie-fellow-to-join-the-speech-acquisition-and-perception-lab-sap- 

Postdoc Prize press articles: (1) https://www.maz-online.de/brandenburg/diese-sechs-forscher-gewannen-brandenburgische-wissenschaftspreise-QVSGAKFTGSWVKGYPGUJUVJB4JQ.html (2) https://mwfk.brandenburg.de/mwfk/de/service/pressemitteilungen/ansicht/~24-11-2022-landeslehr-und-postdoc-preise-2022# (3) https://www.wis-potsdam.de/de/universitaet-potsdam/doppelt-ausgezeichnet-landeslehrpreis-und-postdoc-preis-gehen-universitaet 

Researcher Interview for Labvanced (May, 2022): https://www.labvanced.com/content/research/interviews/m-marimon/2022-04-non-adjacent-dependencies/

Dem Spracherwerb auf der Spur - wie Babys Wörter erkennen, Universität Potsdam (March 2022) https://www.uni-potsdam.de/en/headlines-and-featured-stories/detail/2022-03-01-dem-spracherwerb-auf-der-spur-wie-babys-woerter-erkennen

Conference contributions (last 5 years)

Marimon, M., Langus, A. Variability in the speech signal defines the rhythm of spoken language. Poster Presentation. 6th Phonetics and Phonology in Europe, 25-28th June, Mallorca, Spain.

Piracún, L., Marimon, M. Lexical stress perception of trisyllabic pseudowords by Spanish-learning infants growing up in Colombia. WILD, 4-6th June 2025, San Sebastián, Spain.

Marimon, M. & Sebastián-Gallés, N. Statistical Word Segmentation in Monolingual Catalan and Spanish Infants and Catalan-Spanish Bilinguals: A Pupillometry Study on Vowel Reduction. 7th June 2025, ABCD Meeting, Regensburg, Germany. 

Marimon, M., Sebastián-Gallés, N. Statistical Word Segmentation in Monolingual Catalan and Spanish Infants and Catalan-Spanish Bilinguals: A Pupillometry Study on Vowel Reduction. WILD, 4-6th June 2025, San Sebastián, Spain.

Marimon, M., Sebastián-Gallés, N. Statistical word segmentation in Catalan-Spanish bilinguals: a pupillometry study on vowel reduction. Oral presentation. XVII Symposium of Psycholinguistics, 26-28th May 2025, Barcelona, Spain.

Marimon, M., Sebastián-Gallés, N. Language-specific constraints on word segmentation: a pupillometry study on vowel reduction. Oral presentation. 10th Spring Research Conference, 13th March 2025, Barcelona, Spain.

Marimon, M., Langus, A. & Höhle, B. Speech segmentation in German-learning infants: the weight of statistical and prosodic cues. Oral Presentation. Conference of Experimental Psychologists (TeaP), 9-12th March 2025, Frankfurt, Germany.

Marimon, M. & Sebastián-Gallés, N. Language-specific constraints on statistical word segmentation: A pupillometry study on vowel reduction in Catalan and Spanish speakers. Poster Presentation. Interdisciplinary Advances in Statistical Learning Conference, 5-7th June 2024, San Sebastián, Spain.

Marimon, M. & Langus, A. Toddler's word learning abilities from a social robot. Oral Presentation. ICIS 8-11th July 2024, Glasgow, UK.

Marimon, M., Mateu, V., Höhle, B. & Sundara, M.  Word segmentation abilities in German-learning infants: Evidence from pupillometry. Poster Presentation. ICIS 8-11th July 2024, Glasgow, UK.

Marimon, M., Mateu, V., Höhle, B. & Sundara, M.  Evidence for word segmentation abilities in German-learning 5-to-6-month-olds. Poster Presentation. WILD June 2024, Lisbon, Portugal.    

Langus, A., Marimon, M. & Saksida, A. Rapid label-referent mapping with vocoded speech in young infants. Poster Presentation. SPIN, January, 2024, Potsdam, Germany.

Saksida, A., Marimon, M. & Langus, A. Rapid label-referent mapping with vocoded speech in young infants. Oral Presentation. BUCLD, 4-5th November, 2023, Boston, USA.

Marimon, M., Oelschlägel, C. & Langus, A. Toddlers learn words from a social robot?! Poster Presentation. BUCLD, 4-5th November, 2023, Boston, USA.

Marimon, M., Höhle, B. & Langus, A. Effects of speech register and cross-linguistic variation on speech segmentation with statistical cues. Linguistweets, 3rd International Twitter Conference in Linguistics, 5th December 2022. 

Marimon, M. & Höhle, B. Word segmentation from an artificial language in German-learning infants. Oral presentation. ICIS, 7-10th July 2022, Ottawa, Canada. [Oral Session chair]

Langus, A.,  Marimon, M. & Höhle, B. Effects of speech register and cross-linguistic variation on speech segmentation with statistical cues. Oral presentation. ICIS, 7-10th July 2022, Ottawa, Canada.

Boll-Avetisyan N., Marimon, M., Langus, A., Guhl, A. S. A test toy with buttons for revealing infants' auditory preferences. Poster Presentation, ICIS, 7-10th July 2022, Ottawa, Canada.

Marimon, M. & Höhle, B. Artificial language segmentation in 6- to 7-month-old German-learning infants. Poster presentation. WILD, 9-11th June 2022, San Sebastián, Spain.

Boll-Avetisyan N., Marimon, M., Langus, A., Guhl, A. S. A Baby Test Toy as a new method for testing infants' audtitory preferences. Poster presentation. WILD, 9-11th June 2022, San Sebastián, Spain.

Marimon, M., Mitciuk, D., Lopukhina, A., Höhle, B. Statistical and prosodic cues for word segmentation: evidence from Russian. Poster presentation. Interdisciplinary Advances in Statistical Learning Conference, 1st-3rd June 2022, San Sebastián, Spain. 

Boll-Avetisyan N., Marimon, M., Langus, A., Guhl, A. S., Höhler, F. Die Test-Spielzeug-Methode: Risiko-Früherkennung von Sprachentwicklungsstörungen im Babyalter. Oral presentation. 50. dbl-Jahreskongress, 20-21st May, 2022, Koblenz, Germany.

Marimon, M., Hofmann, A. Männel, C., Friederici, A.D., Höhle, B. & Wartenburger, I. Learning of Non-Adjacent Dependencies in a web-based computerized game setting. Poster presentation. BCCCCD, 10-14th January 2022, virtual conference.

Marimon, M., Höhle, B. & Langus, A. Pupillary entrainment in speech segmentation. Linguistweets, 2nd International Twitter Conference in Linguistics, 5th December. See our contribution here.

Langus, A., Marimon, M., Saksida, A., Boll-Avetisyan, N. & Höhle, B. Statistical regularities in child-directed speech depend on children's age. Oral Presentation. BUCLD, 4-7th November, 2021, virtual conference. [Link to the talk]

Mitciuk, D., Lopukhina, A., Marimon, M. Use of stress and statistical cues for speech segmentation by Russian infants and adults. 5th International Conference on Neurobiology of Speech and Language, 8-9th October 2021, virtual conference.

Marimon, M., Hofmann, A. & Wartenburger, I. Learning of Non-Adjacent Dependencies in a web-based computerized game setting. Data Blitz and Poster presentation. AMiD Workshop, 13-14th September 2021, virtual conference.

Mitciuk, D., Lopukhina, A., Marimon, M. & Höhle, B. Use of stress and statistical cues for speech segmentation by Russian infants and adults. Poster presentation. ISOLDE, 14-18th June 2021, virtual conference.

Marimon, M., Hofmann, A. & Wartenburger, I. Learning of Non-Adjacent Dependencies in a Computerized Online Game Setting. Poster presentation. ISOLDE, 14-18th June 2021, virtual conference.

Marimon, M., Langus, A. & Höhle, B. Individual variability in pupillary entrainment predicts speech segmentation with prosodic and statistical cues in infancy. Oral presentation. BUCLD, 5-8th November 2020, virtual conference.

Marimon, M., Höhle, B. & Nazzi, T. Statistics as word segmentation cue in French-learning infants. Oral presentation. 7th Summer Neurolinguistics School, 22-24th June 2020, virtual conference.

Marimon, M., Berdasco-Muñoz, E., Nazzi, T. & Höhle, B. Word segmentation in French-learning infants: Acoustic and statistical cues. Poster Presentation. ICIS, 6th-9th July, 2020, virtual conference.