our work gathering many children’s eye movements to understand word learning trajectories, out now — !

very sorry to hear, kanishka. i'm grateful that her love of language lives on in you

how do people jointly traverse semantic space in conversation? in this cogsci paper, we consider conversation as a form of joint action in which people explore content with nested levels of specificity. conversations and topics start out the same and get idiosyncratic as they progress.
osf.io/69yw2/

exciting to see more language acquisition work shifting the lens to peer communication! @clairebergey.bsky.social is organizing a CogSci symposium highlighting related lines of work this summer!

title of paper (in text) plus author list

Time course of word recognition for kids at different ages.

Super excited to submit a big sabbatical project this year: "Continuous developmental changes in word
recognition support language learning across early
childhood": osf.io/preprints/ps...

oh nice! i wrongly assumed list adding came with notifications

would love to be added!

Using contrastive inferences to learn about new words and categories In the face of unfamiliar language or objects, description is one cue people can use to learn about both. Beyond narrowing potential referents to thos…

congrats to @clairebergey.bsky.social on the excellent work!!

“Overall, people are able to use contrastive inferences from description to resolve reference and make inferences about a novel object’s category, letting them learn more about new things than literal meaning alone allows.”