Selected Recent Presentations
M.H. Christiansen & N. Chater (2005, May). Computational Models of Syntactic Acquisition. Invited background paper for the Dahlem Workshop on the Biological Foundations and Origin of Syntax, Berlin, Germany.
C.M. Conway & M.H. Christiansen (2004, November). Modality-Specific Sub-Systems for Statistical Learning. Paper to be presented at the 45th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Minneapolis, MN.
K. Kemtes, T.A. Farmer & M.H. Christiansen (2004, November). Discourse Context Helps Young and Older Readers Avoid the Garden Path. Paper to be presented at the 45th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Minneapolis, MN.
L. Onnis, M.H. Christiansen, P. Monaghan & N. Chater (2004, November). The Importance of Variety in Language Acquisition: Segmentation and Generalization in Artificial Language Learning. Poster to be presented at the 29th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston, MA.
M.H. Christiansen (2004, October). The Role of Phonology in the Acquisition and Processing of Syntax. Invited colloquium to be presented to the Department of Psychology and the Cognitive Science Program, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA.
M.H. Christiansen (2004, October). The Role of Phonology in the Acquisition and Processing of Syntax. Invited colloquium presented to Center for Cognitive Science, SUNY Buffalo, NY.
M.H. Christiansen, L. Onnis, P. Monaghan & N. Chater (2004, September). Happy Endings in Language Acquisition: Discovering Lexical Categories Using Word Endings. Poster presented at the Annual Conference on Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing, Aix en Provence, France. [Abstract]
T.A. Farmer, M.H. Christiansen & P. Monaghan (2004, September). Sound Advice in Language Comprehension: The Influence of Phonological Typicality on On-line Sentence Processing. Paper presented at the Annual Conference on Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing, Aix en Provence, France. [Abstract]
P. Monaghan, M.H. Christiansen & N. Chater (2004, September). How Language-Specific Is Language- Acquisition? A Cross-Linguistic Analysis of Cues for Syntactic Categorisation. Poster presented at the Annual Conference on Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing, Aix en Provence, France. [Abstract]
R. Dale & M.H. Christiansen (2004, August). Active and Passive Statistical Learning: Exploring the Role of Feedback in Artificial Grammar Learning and Language. Poster presented at the 26th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Chicago, IL. [Abstract] [Download]
P. Monaghan & M.H. Christiansen (2004, August). What Distributional Information Is Useful and Usable for Language Acquisition? Paper presented at the 26th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Chicago, IL. [Abstract] [Download]
L. Onnis, P. Monaghan, M.H. Christiansen & N. Chater (2004, August). Variability Is the Spice of Learning, and a Crucial Ingredient for Detecting and Generalizing in Nonadjacent Dependencies. Paper presented at the 26th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Chicago, IL. [Abstract] [Download]
F. Reali & M.H. Christiansen (2004, August). Structure Dependence in Language Acquisition: Uncovering the Richness of the Stimulus. Paper presented at the 26th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Chicago, IL. [Abstract] [Download]
P. Monaghan, L. Onnis, M.H. Christiansen & N. Chater (2004, June). The Importance of Variety in Language Acquisition: Segmentation and Generalisation in Artificial Language Learning. Paper presented at the Experimental Psychology Society Meeting, Lancaster, U.K.
M.H. Christiansen (2004, April). Word Order and Language Learnability: A Connectionist Perspective. Invited colloquium to be presented to the Department of General and Applied Linguistics, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
N. Chater & M.H. Christiansen (2004, April). Is Coevolution of Language and Language Genes Possible? Paper to be presented at the Fifth International Conference on the Evolution of Language, Leipzig, Germany. [Abstract]
M.H. Christiansen (2004, April). The Necessity of Innate Constraints on Cultural Transmission in Theories of Language Evolution. Paper to be presented at the Fifth International Conference on the Evolution of Language, Leipzig, Germany. [Abstract]
F. Reali & M.H. Christiansen (2004, April). The Relative Role of Biological and Linguistic Adaptation in Language Evolution: A Computational Approach. Paper to be presented at the Fifth International Conference on the Evolution of Language, Leipzig, Germany. [Abstract]
T.A. Farmer, M.H. Christiansen & P. Monaghan (2004, March). Phonological Typicality Affects Sentence Processing. Poster to be presented at the 17th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, College Park, MD.
M.H. Christiansen (January, 2004). Learnability and Word Order Universals: A Cognitive Science Perspective. Invited paper presented at the IGERT Workshop on Cognitive Science of Language: Integrative Approaches at Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, MD. [Abstract]
M.H. Christiansen, P. Monaghan & N. Chater (2003, November). Phonological Typicality Affects Lexical Processing. Paper presented at the 44th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Vancouver, BC.
C.M. Conway, M.R. Ellefson & M.H. Christiansen (2003, November). Starting Small in Visual and Auditory Domains: Differential Effects of Staged Input. Poster presented at the 44th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Vancouver, BC.
M.H. Christiansen, F. Reali, P. Monaghan & N. Chater (October, 2003). Language Acquisition through Multiple-Cue Integration: Differential Contributions of Phonological and Distributional Cues. Paper presented at the 28th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston, MA.
F. Reali & M.H. Christiansen (October, 2003). Reappraising Poverty of Stimulus Argument: A Corpus Analysis Approach. Poster presented at the 28th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston, MA. [Abstract]
M.H. Christiansen (October, 2003). Multiple-Cue Integration in Language Acquisition, Processing and Evolution. Invited paper presented at the Workshop on Exploratory Models of Language Acquisition at the Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, NM.
P. Monaghan, N. Chater & M.H. Christiansen (September, 2003). The Differential Roles of Phonological and Contextual Cues in Language Acquisition. Paper presented at the 13th conference of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology, Granada, Spain.
M.H. Christiansen, F. Reali, P. Monaghan & N. Chater (August, 2003). Multiple-Cue Integration in Language Acquisition: The Differential Contribution of Phonological and Distributional Cues. Paper presented at the Annual Conference on Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing, Glasgow, U.K. [Abstract]
P. Monaghan, N. Chater & M.H. Christiansen (August, 2003). Phonological Typicality and Lexical Processing. Poster presented at the Annual Conference on Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing, Glasgow, U.K. [Abstract]
C.M. Conway, M.R. Ellefson & M.H. Christiansen (August, 2003). When Less is Less and When Less is More: Starting Small with Staged Input. Paper presented at the 25th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Boston, MA. [Abstract] [Download]
P. Monaghan, N. Chater & M.H. Christiansen (August, 2003). Inequality between the classes: Phonological and distributional typicality as predictors of lexical processing. Poster presented at the 25th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Boston, MA. [Abstract] [Download]
L. Onnis, M.H. Christiansen, N. Chater & R.L. Gomez (August, 2003). Reduction of Uncertainty in Human Sequential Learning: Evidence from Artificial Grammar Learning. Paper presented at the 25th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Boston, MA. [Abstract] [Download]
Reali, M.H. Christiansen & P. Monaghan (August, 2003). Phonological and Distributional Cues in Syntax Acquisition: Scaling Up the Connectionist Approach to Multiple-Cue Integration. Paper presented at the 25th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Boston, MA. [Abstract] [Download]
M.H. Christiansen (2003, June). On the Importance of Multiple-Cue Integration in Language Acquisition. Invited colloquium presented to the Department of Psychology, University of Warwick, U.K.
M.H. Christiansen (2003, June). On the Necessity of Multiple-Cue Integration in Language Acquisition. Invited colloquium presented to the Department of General and Applied Linguistics, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
M.H. Christiansen (2003, May). Using Computational Linguistics to Inform Connectionist Psycholinguistics. Paper presented at the 14th Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics, Reykjavik, Iceland.
M.H. Christiansen (2003, April). Syntactic Bootstrapping through Multiple-Cue Integration. Invited paper presented at the Workshop on Bootstrapping in Language Acquisition: Psychological, Linguistic and Computational Aspects, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN.
M.H. Christiansen, P. Monaghan, S.A. Fitneva & N. Chater (2003, March). The Importance of Multiple Phonological Cues in Grammatical Category Assignment. Poster presented at the 16th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Boston, MA. [Abstract]
J. Wells, M.C. MacDonald & M.H. Christiansen (2003, March). Object vs. Subject Relative Processing: The Differential Effects of Experience. Poster presented at the 16th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Boston, MA. [Abstract]
P. Monaghan, N. Chater & M.H. Christiansen (February, 2003). Multiple-Cue Integration in Language Acquisition. Paper presented at the German Linguistics Society Conference, Munich, Germany.
C.M. Conway & M.H. Christiansen (2002, November). Modality Constrained Statistical Learning of Spatial, Spatiotemporal, and Temporal Input. Poster to be presented at the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Kansas City, KS. [Abstract]
M.H. Christiansen (2002, August). Informing Connectionist Psycholinguistics through Corpus Analyses. Paper presented at the Workshop on Distributional Methods in Language Modelling, School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham, U.K. [Abstract]
C. Conway & M.H. Christiansen (2002, August). Sequential Learning through Touch, Vision and Audition. Paper presented at the 24th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Fairfax, VA. [Abstract] [Download]
G. Lupyan & M.H. Christiansen (2002, August). Case, Word Order and Language Learnability: Insights from Connectionist Modeling. Paper presented at the 24th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Fairfax, VA. [Abstract] [Download]
M.H. Christiansen (2002, May). Constraints on Mimesis. Invited commentary presented at the Perspectives on Imitation Conference, Val d'Oise, France. [Slides]
M.H. Christiansen (2002, April). Integration Multiple Probabilistic Cues: Going beyond Distributional Statistics. Invited paper presented at a symposium on New Directions in Statistical Learning at the 2002 International Conference on Infant Studies, Toronto, Canada. [Abstract]
M.H. Christiansen & C. Conway (2002, March). The Importance of Hierarchical Learning: A Computational Study of Sequential Learning in Human and Non-Human Primates . Paper presented at the 4th International Conference on the Evolution of Language, Cambridge, MA. [Abstract]
R. Dale & M.H. Christiansen (2002, March). The Emergence of Coordinated Phonological and Prosodic Cues for Syntactic Processing. Poster presented at the 15th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, New York, NY. [Abstract]
C.M. Conway (2002, March). Evidence for Semantic Complexity in Large-Brained Mammals. Paper presented at the 4th International Conference on the Evolution of Language, Cambridge, MA. [Abstract]
R. Dale & M.H. Christiansen (2002, March). Multiple-Cue Integration and the Evolution of Languages. Paper presented at the 4th International Conference on the Evolution of Language, Cambridge, MA. [Abstract]
G. Lupyan & M.H. Christiansen (2002, March). The Case of Cases and Word Order: The Role of Syntactic Cues in the Evolution and Acquisition of Language. Paper presented at the 4th International Conference on the Evolution of Language, Cambridge, MA. [Abstract]
M.H. Christiansen & R.A.C. Dale (2001, November). Integrating Distributional, Prosodic, and Phonological Information in Syntax Acquisition: A Connectionist Model. Paper presented at the 26th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston, MA.[Abstract]
C.M. Conway & M.H. Christiansen (2001, November). Tactile and Visual Sequential Learning. Poster presented at the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Orlando, FL. [Abstract]
M.H. Christiansen & R.A.C. Dale (2001, August). Integrating distributional, prosodic and phonological information in a connectionist model of language acquisition. Paper presented at the 23rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Edinburgh, Scotland. [Abstract] [Download]
M.H. Christiansen (2001, July). Individual Differences in Language Processing: Reconsidering the Role of Experience and Working Memory. Invited paper presented at the ANC Open House Workshop, Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation, University of Edinburgh, Scotland. [Abstract]
M.H. Christiansen (2001, May). Integrating Distributional, Prosodic and Phonological Information in a Connectionist Model of Language Acquisition. Invited paper presented at the Language Acquisition and Change Workshop, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
M.H. Christiansen & R.A.C. Dale (2001, March). The Role of Phonological and Prosodic Cues in the Acquisition of Syntax: Multiple-Cue Integration in a Connectionist Model. Paper presented at the Fourteenth Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA. [Abstract]
M.H. Christiansen (2001, February). Language Evolution as the Adaptation of Linguistic Structure. Invited colloquium presented to the Department of Psychology, University of Chicago, IL.
M.H. Christiansen (2000, September). Language Evolution as the Adaptation of Linguistic Structure. Invited Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology colloquium presented to the Department of Philosophy, Washington University.
M.H. Christiansen, C.M. Conway & S. Curtin (2000, August). A Connectionist Single-Mechanism Account of Rule-Like Behavior in Infancy. Paper presented at the 22nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Philadelphia, PA. [Abstract] [Download]
M.H. Christiansen (2000, April). Using Artificial Language Learning to Study Language Evolution: Exploring the Emergence of Word Order Universals. Paper presented at the 3rd Conference on the Evolution of Language, Paris, France. [Intro] [Download]
M.R. Ellefson & M.H. Christiansen (2000, April). The Evolution of Subjacency without Universal Grammar: Evidence from Artificial Language Learning. Paper presented at the 3rd Conference on the Evolution of Language, Paris, France. [Intro] [Download]
M.H. Christiansen (2000, January). Investigating the Constraints on the Emergence of Word Order Universals: Evidence from Connectionist Simulations and Artificial Grammar Learning. Invited paper presented at the Workshop on Evolutionary Computation and Cognitive Science, Melbourne, Australia. [Abstract]
M.H. Christiansen (2000, January). The Power of Statistical Learning in Infancy: No Need for Rules. Paper presented at the Fifth Bi-Annual Australian Cognitive Science Conference, Melbourne, Australia. [Abstract]
