Here you'll find papers reporting on current and previous research in the
lab. There are links to the abtracts of most papers and in many cases also
electronic versions of the papers. If an electronic version is not
available, you can email morten@siu.edu
and request a copy (remember to specify which paper(s)).
Journal Publications
Christiansen, M.H. & Chater, N. (in press-a). Connectionist
Psycholinguistics: Capturing the empirical data. Trends in Cognitive
Sciences. (click here
for an abstract or to download a preprint version)
MacDonald, M.C. & Christiansen, M.H. (in press).
Reassessing working memory: A comment on Just & Carpenter
(1992) and Waters & Caplan (1996). Psychological Review.
(click here
for an abstract or to request an electronic copy)
Christiansen, M.H. & Chater, N. (1999a). Connectionist natural
language processing: The state of the art. Cognitive Science, 23,
417-437. (click
here
for an abstract and a Postscript file)
Christiansen, M.H. & Chater, N. (1999b).
Toward a connectionist model of recursion in human linguistic
performance. Cognitive Science,23, 157-205. (click here
for an abstract and PostScript/PDF files)
Christiansen, M.H., Chater, N. & Seidenberg, M.S. (Eds.) (1999).
Connectionist models of human language processing: Progress and
prospects. Special issue of Cognitive Science, Vol. 23(4),
415-634. (click here for a preface
and table of contents, and here for
abstracts)
Christiansen, M.H. & Curtin, S. (1999a). Transfer of learning:
Rule acquisition or statistical learning? Trends in Cognitive
Sciences, 3, 289-290.
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. (click here for an
abstract and to request an electronic copy)
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. (click
here
for an abstract and to request an electronic copy)
Christiansen, M.H. (1997). Review of Michael S. Gazzaniga
(Ed.) The Cognitive Neurosciences.
Philosophical Psychology, 10, 117-122.
Christiansen, M.H. & Chater, N. (1994). Generalization
and connectionist language learning. Mind and
Language, 9, 273-287. (click here for an abstract)
Christiansen, M.H. & Chater, N. (1992). Connectionism,
meaning and learning. Connection Science, 4
, 227-252 (click here for an
abstract)
Book Chapters
Christiansen, M.H. & Chater, N. (in press-b). Connectionist
psycholinguistics in perspective. In M.H. Christiansen & N.
Chater (Eds.), Connectionist psycholinguistics. Westport, CT:
Ablex.
Christiansen, M.H. & Chater, N. (in press-c). Connectionist
psycholinguistics: The very idea. In M.H. Christiansen & N. Chater
(Eds.), Connectionist psycholinguistics. Westport, CT: Ablex.
Christiansen, M.H. & Chater, N. (in press-d). Finite models of
infinite language: A connectionist approach to recursion. In M.H.
Christiansen & N. Chater (Eds.), Connectionist
psycholinguistics. Westport, CT: Ablex.
Christiansen, M.H. & Ellefson, M.R. (in press). Linguistic
adaptation without linguistic constraints: The role of sequential
learning in language evolution. In J-L. Dessalles, A. Wray & C.
Knight (Eds.), Transitions to language. Oxford, U.K.: Oxford
University Press.
Chater, N. & Christiansen, M.H. (to appear). The connectionist
psycholinguistics of speech processing. Manuscript submitted for
inclusion in M.A. Arbib (Ed.), The handbook of brain theory and
neural networks (2nd ed.).
Christiansen, M.H. (to appear). Language evolution and
change. To appear in M.A. Arbib (Ed.), Handbook of Brain Theory
and Neural Networks (2nd Edition). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Christiansen, M.H. & Chater, N. (to appear). Constituency
and recursion in connectionist models. Manuscript submitted for
inclusion in M.A. Arbib (Ed.), The handbook of brain theory and
neural networks (2nd ed.).
Christiansen, M.H. & Curtin, S. (to appear). Integrating
multiple cues in language acquisition: A computational study of early
infant speech segmentation. Manuscript submitted for inclusion in
G. Houghton (Ed.), Connectionist models in cognitive psychology.
Chater, N. & Christiansen, M.H. (1999). Connectionism and
natural language processing. In S. Garrod & M. Pickering
(Eds.), Language processing(pp. 233-279). U.K.: Psychology
Press. (click here to see
the introduction or request an electronic copy)
Books
Christiansen, M.H. & Chater, N. (Eds.) (in press-e).
Connectionist psycholinguistics. Westport, CT: Ablex.
Christiansen, M.H. & Chater, N. (in preparation-a). Language
as an organism: A connectionist perspective on the acquisition,
processing and evolution of language. Oxford: Oxford University
Press.
Christiansen, M.H. & Kirby, S. (Eds.) (in preparation).
Language evolution: The states of the art. Oxford: Oxford University
Press.
Papers in Conference Proceedings
Christiansen, M.H. (2000). Using artificial language learning to
study language evolution: Exploring the emergence of word order
universals. J. L. Dessalles & L. Ghadakpour (Eds.), The Evolution of
Language: 3rd International Conference (pp. 45-48). Paris, France:
Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications.
(click here for a PDF version)
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.
(click here for a PDF version)
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 Supérieure des
Télécommunications. (click here for a PDF version)
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.
(click here for a PDF version)
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 Associates. (click here
for an HTML version or here
for an abstract and PostScript/PDF files)
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, U.K.:
Springer-Verlag. (click here for
abstract and PostScript/PDF files)
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. (click here for an abstract and PostScript
file)
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 Associates. (click
here for abstract and Postscript
file)
Seidenberg, M.S., Allen, J. & Christiansen, M.H. (1997).
Language acquisition: Learning and applying probabilistic
constraints. In A. Sorace, C. Heycock & R. Shillcock (Eds.),
Proceedings of GALA 1997: Language Acquisition: Knowledge
Representation and Processing, University of Edinburgh.
(click here for an abstract and
PostScript file)
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 Associates. (click here for abstract and PostScript file)
Morrison, H. & Christiansen, M.H. (1995). Reconsidering
domain-general language learning. In Proceedings of the
1995 Midwest Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science
Conference (pp. 1-6). (click here for an 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 Associates.
(click here for an abstract)
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 Associates. (click here for an abstract)
Work in Preparation
Christiansen, M.H. (in preparation-a). Cognitive constraints on word
order universals: Evidence from connectionist modeling and artificial
grammar learning.
Christiansen, M.H. (in preparation-b). Intrinsic constraints on the
processing recursive sentence structure. (an earlier version of this
paper was presented as talk at the 1996 CUNY Sentence Processing
Conference - click here for an abstract)
Christiansen, M.H. & Chater, N. (in preparation-b). Language as an
organism: Language evolution as the adaptation of linguistic
structure. (click here for an abstract
of an earlier version)
Christiansen, M.H., Conway, C.M. & Curtin, S. (in preparation).
Statistical and rule-like learning in infancy: Dual tasks within a
single connectionist network.
Christiansen, M.H., Kelly, L., Shillcock, R. & Greenfield, K.,
(in preparation). Artificial grammar learning in agrammatism.
Christiansen, M.H. & MacDonald, M.C. (in preparation).
Processing of recursive sentence structure: Testing predictions from
a connectionist model. (also poster presented at the Computational
Psycholinguistics Conference 1997 - click here
for an abstract and PostScript/PDF versions of a hand-out)
Christiansen, M.H., MacDonald, M.C. & Race, D.S. (in
preparation). Experience-based differences in sentence
comprehension: A training study.
Conway, C. & Christiansen, M.H. (in preparation).Sequential
learning in non-human primates.
Conway, C.M., Schaper, K., Ellefson, M.R. & Christiansen, M.H. (in
preparation). Connectionist models of developmental disorders: A
critical appraisal.
