Publications

Peer-reviewed

Langus, A., Marimon, M., Höhle, B. (2026). Speech rhythm and pupil size. Book chapter in "Rhythms of Speech and Language" Editors: Lars Meyer, Antje Strauss. Cambridge University Press. 

Birulés, J., Marimon, M., Duroyal, A., Vilain, A., Bailly, G & Fort, M. (2025). French speakers prefer prosody over statistics. Language and Speech. https://doi.org/10.1177/002383092513742 

Marimon, M., Saksida, A., Höhle, B. & Langus, A. (2025). Speech segmentation with prosodic and statistical cues is language specific in infancy. Languages, 10.  https://doi.org/10.3390/languages10090240

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 

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García-Castro, G., Marimon, M., Santolín, C. & Sebastián-Gallés, N. (unpublished, 2019).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] 

In prep/under review

Flohr, M., Marimon, M., von Holzen, K. & Schimke, S. (under review) Lexical stress from German in the ears of French and Spanish listeners: Cross-linguistic influence in foreign language segmentation. 

Bogaerts, L., Crepaldi, D., Zhou, H., Bautista, A., Brown, K., Chang, L. W., ... Marimon, M..… Siegelman, N. (PsyArxiv Preprint, 2025, September 21, under review). 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.

Gasparini, L., et al., Cross-linguistic POS Consortium*, Vogel, AP. (under review). Automated parts-of-speech tagging in 52 languages: benchmarking to establish suitability for multilingual clinical language analysis. [*Mireia Marimon is a member of the Cross-linguistic POS Consortium and contributed to formal analysis (parts-of-speech tagging for Catalan), and writing (review and editing) of the manuscript]

Marimon, M. Männel, Friederici, Höhle & Wartenburger, I. (in prep). 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. Statistical word segmentation in monolingual and bilingual Catalan and Spanish-learning infants and adult speakers: A pupillometry study on vowel reduction. Institute of Phonetics, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität. Munich, Germany. 6th May, 2026.

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. Pupillary synchrony to natural speech in 6-month-old infants. Poster Presentation. Salzburg Mind Brain Annual Meeting (SAMBA), 2-3th July, 2026, Salzburg, Austria. 

Flohr, M., Marimon, M., Schimke, S. & von Holzen, K. Lexical stress from German in the ears of French and Spanish listeners: Cross-linguistic influence in foreign language segmentation. Oral Presentation. International Word Processing conference, 6-8th July, 2026, Lisboa, Portugal. 

Langus, A., Höhle, B., Sundara, M., Marimon, M. Pupillary synchrony to natural speech in 6-month-old infants. Hanyang International Symposium on Phonetics and Cognitive Sciences of Language 2026, 22-23th May, 2026, Seoul, Korea.

Flohr, M., Marimon, M., Schimke, S. & von Holzen, K. Statistics vs. Rhythm: How first language shapes foreign language listening. Oral presentation. Conference of Experimental Psychologists (TeaP), 15-18th March 2026, Tübingen, Germany.  

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 2025, Mallorca, Spain.

Piracún, L., Marimon, M. Lexical stress perception of trisyllabic pseudowords by Spanish-learning infants growing up in Colombia. Poster presentation. 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. Oral presentation. 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. Poster presentation. 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.