What is Jacques Mehler?
[[File:Jacques Mehler, Boston, 2011.jpg|right|200px]] '''Jacques Mehler''' (1936 &ndash; 11 February 2020) was a Spanish-born French-American influential [[cognitive psychology|cognitive psychologist]]. His works focused in [[language acquisition]].<ref>{{Cite journal | doi = 10.1016/0749-596X(86)90033-1| title = The syllable's differing role in the segmentation of French and English| journal = Journal of Memory and Language| volume = 25| issue = 4| pages = 385–400| year = 1986| last1 = Cutler | first1 = A. | author-link1 = Anne Cutler| last2 = Mehler | first2 = J. | author-link2 = Jacques Mehler| last3 = Norris | first3 = D. | last4 = Segui | first4 = J. | hdl = 11858/00-001M-0000-0013-346B-2}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal | doi = 10.1038/340229a0| pmid = 2755479| title = Limits on bilingualism| journal = [[Nature (journal)|Nature]]| volume = 340| issue = 6230| pages = 229–230| year = 1989| last1 = Cutler | first1 = A. | author-link1 = Anne Cutler| last2 = Mehler | first2 = J. | author-link2 = Jacques Mehler| last3 = Norris | first3 = D. | last4 = Segui | first4 = J. | bibcode = 1989Natur.340..229C| hdl = 11858/00-001M-0000-0013-3403-8| s2cid = 4361898}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal | doi = 10.1016/0010-0277(88)90035-2| title = A precursor of language acquisition in young infants| url = https://archive.org/details/sim_cognition_1988-07_29_2/page/143| journal = Cognition| volume = 29| issue = 2| pages = 143–78| year = 1988| last1 = Mehler | first1 = J. | last2 = Jusczyk | first2 = P. | last3 = Lambertz | first3 = G. | last4 = Halsted | first4 = N. | last5 = Bertoncini | first5 = J. | last6 = Amiel-Tison | first6 = C. | pmid=3168420| s2cid = 43126875}}</ref> He was born in [[Barcelona]]. Mehler is [[Emeritus]] at the [[École des hautes études en sciences sociales]]. He worked at the [[International School for Advanced Studies]] (SISSA) in [[Trieste]]. He was editor in chief of the journal ''Cognition'' until 2007. In 1989, Mehler was elected a member of the [[Academia Europaea]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ae-info