Publications
[Journal Publications | Book
Chapters | Books | Papers in Conference Proceedings
| Submitted Manuscripts | Manuscripts in Preparation | Theses/Dissertations]
Journal Publications
Conway, C.M. & Christiansen, M.H. (in
press). Statistical learning within and between modalities: Pitting
abstract against stimulus specific representations. Psychological
Science.
Reali, F. & Christiansen, M.H. (in press).
Processing of relative clauses is made easier by frequency of
occurrence. Journal of Memory and Language.
Reali, F. & Christiansen, M.H. (in press).
Word-chunk frequencies affect the processing of pronominal
object-relative clauses. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology.
Farmer, T.A., Christiansen, M.H. &
Monaghan, P. (2006). Phonological typicality influences on-line
sentence comprehension. Proceedings of the National Academy of
Sciences, 103, 12203-12208.
Conway, C. & Christiansen, M.H. (2005).
Modality constrained statistical learning of tactile, visual, and
auditory sequences. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning,
Memory & Cognition, 31, 24-39. [Abstract]
Curtin, S., Mintz, T.H. & Christiansen,
M.H. (2005). Stress changes the representational landscape:
Evidence from word segmentation. Cognition, 96, 233-262. [Abstract]
Monaghan, P., Chater, N. & Christiansen,
M.H. (2005). The differential role of phonological and distributional
cues in grammatical categorisation. Cognition, 96, 143-182. [Abstract]
Reali, F., & Christiansen, M.H.
(2005). Uncovering the richness of the stimulus: Structure
dependence and indirect statistical evidence. Cognitive Science, 29, 1007-1028. [Abstract]
Christiansen, M.H., Conway, C.M. & Ellefson, M.R.
(2003). Raising the bar for connectionist modeling of cognitive
developmental disorders. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 25, 752-753.
[Abstract]
Christiansen, M.H. & Kirby, S. (2003b).
Language evolution: Consensus and controversies.
Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 7, 300-307.
[Abstract]
Dale, R. & Christiansen, M.H. (2003).
Review of The algebraic mind: Integrating connectionism and cognitive
science by G.F. Marcus. European Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 15, 478-480.
[View]
Edelman, S. & Christiansen, M.H. (2003).
How seriously should we take Minimalist
syntax? Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 7, 60-61.
[View]
MacDonald, M.C. &
Christiansen, M.H. (2002). Reassessing working memory: A comment on
Just & Carpenter (1992) and Waters & Caplan (1996).
Psychological Review, 109, 35-54. [Abstract]
Christiansen, M.H. & Chater, N.
(2001a). Connectionist psycholinguistics: Capturing the empirical data.
Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 5, 82-88.
[Abstract]
Conway, C.M., & Christiansen, M.H.
(2001b). Sequential learning in non-human primates. Trends in
Cognitive Sciences, 5, 539-546. [Abstract]
Christiansen, M.H. & Chater, N.
(1999a). Connectionist natural language processing: The state of the
art. Cognitive Science, 23, 417-437. [Abstract] [Download]
Christiansen, M.H. & Chater, N.
(1999b). Toward a connectionist model of recursion in human linguistic
performance. Cognitive Science, 23,
157-205. [Abstract]
[Download]
Christiansen, M.H., Chater, N. &
Seidenberg, M.S. (Eds.) (1999). Connectionist models of human language
processing: Progress and prospects. Special issue of Cognitive
Science, 23 (4), 415-634. [Intro]
Christiansen, M.H. & Curtin, S.L.
(1999a). Transfer of learning: Rule acquisition or statistical
learning? Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 3,
289-290. [View]
Christiansen, M.H. & MacDonald, M.C.
(1999). Fractionated working memory: Even in pebbles, it's still a soup
stone. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 22,
97-98. [Abstract]
Christiansen, M.H., Allen, J. &
Seidenberg, M.S. (1998). Learning to segment speech using multiple
cues: A connectionist model. Language and Cognitive Processes,
13, 221-268. [Abstract]
Christiansen, M.H. (1997). Review of
Michael S. Gazzaniga (Ed.), The Cognitive Neurosciences.
Philosophical Psychology, 10, 117-122.. [Download]
Christiansen, M.H. & Chater, N.
(1994). Generalization and connectionist language learning. Mind and
Language, 9, 273-287. [Abstract
] [Download]
Christiansen, M.H. & Chater, N.
(1992). Connectionism, learning and meaning. Connection Science,
4, 227-252. [Abstract]
[Download]
Book Chapters
Chater, N. & Christiansen, M.H. (in
press). Computational models in psycholinguistics. In R. Sun (Ed.),
Cambridge Handbook of Computational Cognitive Modeling. New York:
Cambridge University Press.
Christiansen, M.H. & Monaghan, P.
(2006). Discovering verbs through multiple-cue integration. In K.
Hirsh-Pasek & R.M. Golinkoff (Eds.), Action meets words: How
children learn verbs (pp. 88-107). New York: Oxford University
Press. [Intro] [Download]
Christiansen, M.H., Conway, C.M. &
Curtin, S. (2005). Multiple-cue integration in language acquisition: A
connectionist model of speech segmentation and rule-like behavior. In
J.W. Minett & W.S.-Y. Wang (Eds.), Language acquisition, change
and emergence: Essay in evolutionary linguistics (pp. 205-249).
Hong Kong: City University of Hong Kong Press. [Intro] [Download
]
Christiansen, M.H. & Curtin, S.
(2005). Integrating multiple cues in language acquisition: A
computational study of early infant speech segmentation. In
G. Houghton (Ed.), Connectionist models in cognitive psychology (pp. 347-372).
Hove, U.K.: Psychology Press. [Intro] [Download]
Onnis, L., Christiansen, M.H. & Chater, N
(2005). Constituency and recursion in connectionist models of language.
In K. Brown (Ed.), Encyclopedia of language and linguistics. Oxford,
U.K.: Elsevier Publishers.
Christiansen, M.H. (2004). On the
relation between language and (mimetic) culture. In S.L. Hurley & N.
Chater (Eds.), Perspectives on imitation: From cognitive neuroscience
to social science (pp. 391-396). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. [Intro] [Download]
Christiansen, M.H. & Dale, R.
(2004). The role of learning and development in the evolution
of language. A connectionist perspective. In Kimbrough Oller, D., U.
Griebel & K. Plunkett (Eds.),
The Evolution of Communication Systems: A Comparative Approach. The
Vienna Series in Theoretical Biology (pp. 90-109). Cambridge MA: MIT
Press [Intro]
[Download]
Chater, N. &
Christiansen, M.H. (2003). Speech processing: Psycholinguistics.
In M.A. Arbib (Ed.), The handbook of brain theory and
neural networks (2nd ed., pp. 1068-1071). Cambridge, MA: MIT
Press. [Intro]
[Download]
Christiansen, M.H. & Chater, N. (2003).
Constituency and recursion in language. In M.A. Arbib (Ed.), The
handbook of brain theory and neural networks (2nd ed., pp. 267-271).
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. [Intro]
[Download]
Christiansen, M.H.
& Dale, R. (2003). Language evolution and change. In M.A. Arbib
(Ed.), The handbook of brain theory and neural networks
(2nd ed., pp. 604-606). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. [Intro]
[Download]
Christiansen, M.H. & Kirby, S. (2003c).
Language evolution: The hardest problem in science? In M.H. Christiansen &
Kirby, S. (Eds.), Language evolution (pp. 1-15). Oxford, U.K.: Oxford
University Press. [Intro]
[Download]
Kirby, S. & Christiansen, M.H. (2003).
From language learning to language evolution. In M.H. Christiansen &
Kirby, S. (Eds.), Language evolution (pp. 272-294). Oxford, U.K.: Oxford
University Press. [Intro]
Christiansen, M.H., Dale, R.A.C, Ellefson,
M.R., & Conway, C.M. (2002). The role of sequential learning in
language evolution: Computational and experimental studies. In A.
Cangelosi & D. Parisi (Eds.) Simulating the evolution of
language (pp.165-187). London: Springer-Verlag. [Intro]
Christiansen, M.H. & Ellefson, M.R.
(2002). Linguistic adaptation without linguistic constraints: The role
of sequential learning in language evolution. In A. Wray (Ed.),
Transitions to language (pp. 335-358). Oxford, U.K.: Oxford
University Press. [Intro]
Christiansen, M.H. & Chater, N.
(2001b). Connectionist psycholinguistics in perspective. In M.H.
Christiansen & N. Chater (Eds.), Connectionist
psycholinguistics (pp.19-75). Westport, CT: Ablex. [Intro]
[Download]
Christiansen, M.H. & Chater, N.
(2001c). Connectionist psycholinguistics: The very idea. In M.H.
Christiansen & N. Chater (Eds.), Connectionist
psycholinguistics (pp.1-15). Westport, CT: Ablex. [Intro]
[Download]
Christiansen, M.H. & Chater, N.
(2001d). Finite models of infinite language: A connectionist approach
to recursion. In M.H. Christiansen & N. Chater (Eds.),
Connectionist psycholinguistics (pp. 138-176). Westport, CT:
Ablex [Intro]
[Download]
Chater, N. & Christiansen, M.H.
(1999). Connectionism and natural language processing. In S.
Garrod & M. Pickering (Eds.), Language processing (pp.
233-279). Hove, U.K.: Psychology Press. [Intro]
Books
Christiansen, M.H. & Chater, N. (Eds.)
(2001e). Connectionist psycholinguistics. Westport, CT:
Ablex. [Intro]
[More Info]
Christiansen, M.H. & Kirby, S. (Eds.) (2003a). Language evolution. Oxford:
Oxford University Press. [Intro]
[More Info]
Christiansen, M.H. & Chater, N. (in
preparation-a). Creating language: Towards a unified framework for
language acquisition, processing and evolution. Oxford: Oxford
University Press.
Christiansen, M.H., Collins, C. &
Edelman, S. (Eds.) (in preparation). Language universals. New
York: Oxford University Press.
Conway, C.M., Onnis, L. & Christiansen,
M.H. (in preparation). Statistical learning: Sensitivity to
sequential structure across cognition. New York: Oxford University
Press.
Papers in Conference
Proceedings
Christiansen, M.H., Hockema, S.A. & Onnis,
L. (2006). Using phoneme distributions to discover words and lexical
categories in unsegmented speech. In Proceedings of the 28th Annual
Cognitive Science Society Conference (pp. 172-177). Mahwah, NJ:
Lawrence Erlbaum.
Christiansen, M.H., Reali, F. & Chater, N.
(2006). The Baldwin effect works for functional, but not arbitrary,
features of language. In A. Cangelosi, A. Smith & K. Smith (Eds.),
Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on the Evolution of
Language (pp. 27-34). London: World Scientific
Publishing.
Monaghan, P. & Christiansen, M.H. (2006).
Why form-meaning mappings are not entirely arbitrary in language. In
Proceedings of the 28th Annual Cognitive Science Society Conference
(pp. 1838-1843). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
Sternberg, D.A. & Christiansen, M.H.
(2006). The implications of bilingualism and multilingualism on
potential evolved language mechanisms. In A. Cangelosi, A. Smith & K.
Smith (Eds.), Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on the
Evolution of Language (pp. 333-340). London: World Scientific
Publishing.
Conway, C.M. & Christiansen, M.H. (2005).
Statistical learning within and across modalities: Abstract versus
stimulus-specific representations. In Proceedings of the 27th Annual
Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 488-493). Mahwah, NJ:
Lawrence Erlbaum.
Farmer, T.A., Christiansen, M.H. & Kemtes,
K.A. (2005). Sentence processing in context: The impact of experience
on individual differences. In Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of
the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 642-647). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence
Erlbaum.
Onnis, L. & Christiansen, M.H. (2005).
Happy endings for absolute beginners: Psychological plausibility in
computational models of language acquisition. In Proceedings of the
27th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1678-1683).
Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
Reali, F., Dale, R. & Christiansen, M.H.
(2005). Colorless green ideas sleep furiously revisited: A statistical
perspective. In Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive
Science Society (pp. 1821-1826). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence
Erlbaum.
Dale, R. & Christiansen, M.H. (2004).
Active and passive statistical learning: Exploring the role of feedback
in artificial grammar learning and language. In Proceedings of the
26th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp.
262-267). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
[Abstract]
[Download]
Monaghan, P. & Christiansen, M.H.
(2004). What distributional information is useful and usable for
language acquisition? In Proceedings of the 26th Annual Conference
of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 963-968). Mahwah, NJ:
Lawrence Erlbaum.
[Abstract]
[Download]
Onnis, L., Monaghan, P., Christiansen,
M.H. & Chater, N. (2004). Variability is the spice of learning, and
a crucial ingredient for detecting and generalizing in nonadjacent
dependencies. In Proceedings of the 26th Annual Conference of the
Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1047-1052). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence
Erlbaum. [Abstract]
[Download]
Reali, F. & Christiansen, M.H. (2004).
Structure dependence in language acquisition: Uncovering the richness
of the stimulus. In Proceedings of the 26th Annual Conference of the
Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1131-1136). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence
Erlbaum. [Abstract]
[Download]
Conway, C.M., Ellefson, M.R. & Christiansen, M.H. (2003).
When less is less and when less is more: Starting small with staged input. In
Proceedings of the 25th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science
Society. (pp. 270-275). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
[Abstract]
[Download]
Monaghan, P., Chater, N. &
Christiansen, M.H. (2003). Inequality between the classes: Phonological
and distributional typicality as predictors of lexical processing. In
Proceedings of the 25th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science
Society. (pp. 810-815). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum. [Abstract] [Download]
Onnis, L. Christiansen, M., Chater,
N. & Gomez, R. (2003) Reduction of uncertainty in human sequential
learning: Evidence from artificial language learning. Proceedings of
The 25th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pp. 886-891). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
[Abstract]
[Download]
Reali, F. &
Christiansen, M.H. (2003). Reappraising Poverty of Stimulus Argument: A
Corpus Analysis Approach. To appear in the online supplement to
Proceedings of the 28th Boston University Conference on Language
Development.
[Abstract]
[Download]
Reali, F., Christiansen, M.H. &
Monaghan, P. (2003). Phonological and distributional cues in syntax
acquisition: Scaling up the connectionist approach to multiple-cue
integration. In Proceedings of the 25th Annual Conference of the
Cognitive Science Society (pp. 970-975). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence
Erlbaum. [Abstract]
[Download]
Conway, C. & Christiansen, M.H.
(2002). Sequential learning through touch, vision and audition. In
Proceedings of the 24th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science
Society (pp. 220-225). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum. [Abstract]
[Download]
Lupyan, G.& Christiansen, M.H. (2002).
Case, word order, and language learnability: Insights from
connectionist modeling. In Proceedings of the 24th Annual Conference
of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 596-601). Mahwah, NJ:
Lawrence Erlbaum. [Abstract]
[Download]
Christiansen, M.H. & Dale, R.A.C. (2001c). Integrating
distributional, prosodic and phonological information in a
connectionist model of language acquisition. In Proceedings of the
23rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp.
220-225). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum. [Abstract]
[Download]
Christiansen, M.H.
(2000). Using artificial language learning to study language evolution:
Exploring the emergence of word universals. J. L. Dessalles & L.
Ghadakpour (Eds.), The Evolution of Language: 3rd International
Conference (pp. 45-48). Paris, France: Ecole Nationale Superieure
des Telecommunications [Intro]
[Download]
Christiansen, M.H.,
Conway, C.M. & Curtin, S. (2000). A connectionist single-mechanism
account of rule-like behavior in infancy. In The Proceedings of the
22nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp.
83-88). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum. [Abstract] [Download]
Ellefson,
M.R. & Christiansen, M.H. (2000a). The evolution of subjacency
without universal grammar: Evidence from artificial language learning.
In J. L. Dessalles & L. Ghadakpour (Eds.), The Evolution of
Language: 3rd International Conference (pp. 98-101). Paris, France:
Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications. [Intro]
[Download]
Ellefson,
M.R. & Christiansen, M.H. (2000b). Subjacency constraints without
universal grammar: Evidence from artificial language learning and
connectionist modeling. In The Proceedings of the 22nd Annual
Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 645-650). Mahwah,
NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum. [Abstract]
[Download]
Christiansen, M.H. & Curtin, S.L. (1999b). The power
of statistical learning: No need for algebraic rules. In The
Proceedings of the 21st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science
Society (pp. 114-119). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum. [Abstract]
[Download]
Christiansen, M.H.
(1998). Improving learning and generalization in neural networks
through the acquisition of multiple related functions. In J.A.
Bullinaria, D.G. Glasspool & G. Houghton (Eds.), Proceedings of
the Fourth Neural Computation and Psychology Workshop: Connectionist
Representations (pp. 58-70). London:
Springer-Verlag. [Abstract]
[Download]
Christiansen, M.H. &
Allen, J. (1997). Coping with variation in speech segmentation. In A.
Sorace, C. Heycock & R. Shillcock (Eds.), Proceedings of GALA
1997: Language Acquisition: Knowledge Representation and Processing
(pp. 327-332). University of Edinburgh Press. [Abstract]
[Download]
Christiansen, M.H. &
Devlin, J.T. (1997). Recursive inconsistencies are hard to learn: A
connectionist perspective on universal word order correlations. In
Proceedings of the 19th Annual Cognitive Science Society
Conference (pp. 113-118). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence
Erlbaum. [Abstract] [Download]
Allen, J. &
Christiansen, M.H. (1996). Integrating multiple cues in word
segmentation: A connectionist model using hints. In Proceedings of
the 18th Annual Cognitive Science Society Conference (pp. 370-375).
Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum. [Abstract]
[Download]
Morrison, H. &
Christiansen, M.H. (1995). Reconsidering domain-general language
learning. In Proceedings of the 1995 Midwest Artificial Intelligence
and Cognitive Science Society Conference (pp.
1-6). [Abstract]
Christiansen, M.H. & Chater, N. (1993). Symbol
grounding – The emperor's new theory of meaning? In Proceedings
of the 15th Annual Cognitive Science Society Conference (pp.
155-160). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum. [Abstract
] [Download]
Christiansen, M.H.
(1992). The (non) necessity of recursion in natural language
processing. In Proceedings of the 14th Annual Cognitive Science
Society Conference (pp. 665-670). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence
Erlbaum. [Abstract] [Download]
Manuscripts Submitted for
Publication or under Revision
Christiansen, M.H., Kelly, L., Shillcock,
R. & Greenfield, K. (submitted). Impaired artificial grammar
learning in agrammatism.
Conway, C.M., Ellefson, M.R., Dale, R.,
Schaper, K., & Christiansen, M.H. (submitted).
Connectionist models of developmental disorders: A critical
appraisal. In D.L Molfese & V.J. Molfese (Eds.),
Handbook of Developmental Neuropsychology. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
[Abstract]
Ellefson, M.R., Young, M.E., Christiansen,
M.H. & Espy, K.A. (under revision). The utility of structural cues
to facilitate student learning of complex
information.
Monaghan, P. & Christiansen, M.H.
(submitted). Integration of multiple probabilistic cues in syntax
acquisition. To appear in H. Behrens (Ed.), Trends in corpus research:
Finding structure in data (TILAR Series). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Monaghan, P., Christiansen, M.H. &
Chater, N. (submitted). The Phonological-Distributional
Coherence Hypothesis: Cross-linguistic evidence in language
acquisition.
Monaghan, P., Onnis, L., Christiansen,
M.H. & Chater, N. (under revision). Speech segmentation and
generalisation: The importance of being
Variable. [Abstract]
Onnis, L., Christiansen, M.H., Chater, N.
& Gomez, R. (submitted). Variability is an important ingredient in
learning.
Onnis, L., Destrebecq, A., Christiansen,
M.H., Chater, N. & Cleeremans, A. (submitted). Processing
non-adjacent dependencies: A graded, associative account. [Abstract]
Reali, F., & Christiansen, M.H.
(under revision). The role of biological and linguistic adaptation in language evolution.
[Abstract]
Snyder, J.S., Hannon, E.E., Large, E.W. &
Christiansen, M.H. (submitted). Synchronization and continuation
tapping to complex meters.
Manuscripts in
Preparation
Christiansen, M.H. & Chater, N. (in
preparation-b). A solution to the logical problem of language acquisition..
Christiansen, M.H. & Chater, N. (in
preparation-c). The logical problem of language evolution; and a solution.
Christiansen, M.H. & Kirby, S. (in
preparation). Language evolution. To appear in L.R. Squire (Eds.), New
encyclopedia of neuroscience. Oxford, U.K.: Elsevier.
Christiansen, M.H. & MacDonald, M.C. (in preparation).
Intrinsic constraints on the processing of recursive sentence
structure: Testing predictions
from a connectionist model.
Christiansen, M.H. & Reeder, P.A. (in preparation). Cognitive
constraints on word order universals: Evidence from connectionist
modeling and artificial grammar learning.
Farmer, T.A., Christiansen, M.H. & Kemtes,
K.A. (in preparation). Evidence for a language comprehension system
driven by experience.
Politiek, F., Conway, C.M., Ellefson, M.R.
& Christiansen, M.H. (in preparation). Starting small in artificial
grammar learning.
Wells, J., Christiansen, M.H., MacDonald,
M.C. & Race, D. (in preparation). Experience and sentence
comprehension: Implicit learning, working memory, and individual
differences.
Theses
/ Dissertations
Christiansen, M.H. (1994). Infinite
Languages, Finite Minds: Connectionism, Learning and Linguistic
Structure. Unpublished PhD dissertation. University of Edinburgh,
Scotland. [Abstract] [Download].
Conway, C.M. (2001). Tactile
Sequential Learning: Artificial Grammar Learning by Touch.
Unpublished MA thesis. Southern Illinois University, IL. [Abstract] [Download].
Lupyan, G. (2002). Modeling Syntactic
Devices: An Exploration of Language Evolution from Connectionist and
Memetic Perspectives. . Unpublished BA thesis. Cornell University,
NY. [Abstract]
[Download].
Onnis, L. (2003). Statistical Language
Learning. Unpublished PhD dissertation. University of Warwick,
UK. [Abstract]
[Download].
Onnis, L. (2001) Fluency in native and
non-native speakers. Published undergraduate thesis, Universita
di Bologna. In L. Onnis, A. Giacosa, B. Finger, & H. Rechenmacher,
Aspetti linguistici e interculturali del bilinguismo. Milan:
Franco Angeli. pp. 20-139. [Introduction]
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