Title and abstract of the paper
How do you measure early language development in languages where you don't have word lists?
New paper: Measuring children’s early vocabulary in low-resource languages using a Swadesh-style word list - led by @kachergis.bsky.social and @alvinwmtan.bsky.social
osf.io/njm7d_v1
Flyer for the event!
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✨ Apply by Sep 25th to Stanford Psychology's 9th annual Paths to a Psychology PhD info-session/workshop to have all of your questions answered!
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When people form conventions in reference games, how easy are they for outsiders to interpret? (for values of "outsider" that include naïve humans and vision-language models) Check out @vboyce.bsky.social's poster today at #CogSci2025 to find out.
paper: escholarship.org/uc/item/16c4...
New #cogsci2025 paper! with @tobigerstenberg.bsky.social
In “Generics Revisited: Analyzing generalizations in children’s books and caregivers’ speech” we revisit the connection between generic use in children’s language input and psychological essentialism.
Language and cognition lab cogsci presentations!
Come see us at #cogsci2025! Here’s a (revised) list of posters and talks from my lab!
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...
When I was finishing undergrad, I put together a short reader in the history and philosophy of linguistics. I've now ported it to Quarto Book and added a new chapter on computational approaches (along with other updates). Feedback is welcome! 😊
alvinwmtan.github.io/ling-approac...
🚨Publication Alert!🚨
The ManyBabies4 paper is out! 37 labs around the world tested over 1,000 babies in the largest investigation of infants' social evaluation to date.
doi.org/10.1111/desc...
