Sabine Stoll

Sabine Stoll, Prof. Dr.

Head of the Language Acquisition and Diversity Lab (ACQDIV)
Director of the Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Language Evolution (ISLE)

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Huber, E., Küntay, A. C., Bickel, B., & Stoll, S. (2026). The Agent Preference in Ontogeny: Predictability of Agent and Patient Roles in Child‐Directed Utterances Across Languages Cognitive Science, 50, e70147. https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.70147
Morozova, N., Stoll, S., & Bangerter, A. (2025). Language‐Invariant Strategies of Navigating Transitions in Joint Activities: Forms and Functions of Coordination Markers Cognitive Science, 49(11), e70133. https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.70133
Çabuk-Ballı, S., Küntay, A. C., Widmer, P., & Stoll, S. (2025). The road to negation: A comparative study of five typologically and culturally diverse languages First Language, 45, 596–621. https://doi.org/10.1177/01427237251336806
Schick, J., Daum, M. M., & Stoll, S. (2025). Input to the Language Learning Infant: The Impact of Other Children Developmental Science, 28, e70045. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.70045
Mine, J. G., Dees, L. C., Wilke, C., Willems Erik P., Machanda Zarin P., Muller, M. N., Emery Thompson, M., Wrangham, R. W., Scully, E. J., Langergraber, K., Stoll, S., Slocombe, K. E., & Townsend, S. W. (2025). Chimpanzee mothers, but not fathers, influence offspring vocal–visual communicative behavior PLoS Biology, 23, e3003270. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3003270
Wegdell, F., Fryns, C., Schick, J., Nellissen, L., Laporte, M., Surbeck, M., van Noordwijk, M. A., Masi, S., Hellwig, B., Willems, E. P., Zuberbühler, K., van Schaik, C. P., Stoll, S., & Townsend, S. W. (2025). The evolution of infant-directed communication: Comparing vocal input across all great apes Science Advances, 11, eadt7718. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adt7718
You, G., Ger, E., Daum, M. M., & Stoll, S. (2025). Children Learn Causatives Despite Pervasive Ellipsis: Evidence from Turkish Journal of Child Language, 1–22. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305000925000200
Schick, J., & Stoll, S. (2025). Children Learn Best From Their Peers: The Crucial Role of Input From Other Children in Language Development Open Mind, 9, 665–676. https://doi.org/10.1162/opmi_a_00198
Çabuk-Ballı, S., Mazara, J., Küntay, A. C., Hellwig, B., Pfeiler, B. B., Widmer, P., & Stoll, S. (2025). Negation in first language acquisition: Universal or language-specific? Cognitive Science, 49, e70044. https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.70044
Mine, J. G., Wilke, C., Zulberti, C., Behjati, M., Bosshard, A. B., Stoll, S., Machanda, Z. P., Manser, A., Slocombe, K. E., & Townsend, S. W. (2024). Vocal-visual combinations in wild chimpanzees Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 78, 108. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00265-024-03523-x
You, G., Daum, M. M., & Stoll, S. (2024). Adults Adapt to Child Speech in Causative Semantics Cognitive Science, 48, e13495. https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.13495
Morozova, N., You, G., Stoll, S., & Bangerter, A. (2024). Measuring acoustic dissimilarity of hierarchical markers in task-oriented dialogue with MFCC-based dynamic time warping Proceedings of the International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, 4763–4767. https://doi.org/10.21437/interspeech.2024-2204
Hardegger, S., Mazara, J., Küntay, A. C., Hellwig, B., Pfeiler, B., & Stoll, S. (2024). Verbs or Nouns? A cross-linguistic study examining the effect of morphological complexity and input on children’s early lexical development. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2354–2361. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7254q3jb
Mazara, J., Loporcaro, M., & Stoll, S. (2024). Acquisition of gender agreement depends on frequency distributions in specific contexts Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2496–2502. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/16b5s7hq
Stoll, S. (2023). Word Classes in First Language Acquisition In E. Van Lier (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Word Classes (pp. 865–875). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198852889.013.36
Rüst, O., Baroni, M., & Stoll, S. (2023). Getting Creative: A Language Modeling Approach to Predicting Child Utterances in 12 Typologically Diverse Languages BUCLD: Proceedings of the Boston University Conference on Language Development, 672–685. http://www.lingref.com/bucld/47/BUCLD47-54.pdf
Feurstein, L., Furrer, R., & Stoll, S. (2023). Turn-Taking Predicts Vocabulary Acquisition at 18 Months: A Study of Daylong Recordings In P. Gappmayr & J. Kellogg (Eds.), BUCLD: Proceedings of the Boston University Conference on Language Development (pp. 255–267). Cascadilla Press. http://www.lingref.com/bucld/47/BUCLD47-21.pdf
Ger, E., You, G., Küntay, A. C., Göksun, T., Stoll, S., & Daum, M. M. (2022). Gradual Route to Productivity: Evidence from Turkish Morphological Causatives Cognitive Science, 46, 13210. https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.13210
Bosshard, A. B., Leroux, M., Lester, N. A., Bickel, B., Stoll, S., & Townsend, S. W. (2022). From collocations to call-ocations: using linguistic methods to quantify animal call combinations Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 76, 122. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00265-022-03224-3
Mazara, J., Lieven, E., & Stoll, S. (2022). How Do Children Combine Pointing and Language in the Earliest Stages of Development? A Case Study of Russian and Chintang Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 3696–3702. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/62r4g9j9
Ger, E., Küntay, A. C., Göksun, T., Stoll, S., & Daum, M. M. (2022). Do typological differences in the expression of causality influence preschool children’s causal event construal? Language and Cognition, 14, 161–184. https://doi.org/10.1017/langcog.2021.26
Rüst, O., Baroni, M., & Stoll, S. (2022). The Acquisition of Case Systems in Typologically Diverse Languages: Children Gradually Generalize Grammatical Rules (Y. Gong & F. Kpogo, Eds.; pp. 672–685). Cascadilla Press. http://www.lingref.com/bucld/46/BUCLD46-51.pdf
Schick, J., Fryns, C., Wegdell, F., Laporte, M., Zuberbühler, K., van Schaik, C. P., Townsend, S. W., & Stoll, S. (2022). The function and evolution of child-directed communication PLoS Biology, 20, e3001630. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3001630
Lester, N. A., Moran, S., Küntay, A. C., Allen, S. E. M., Pfeiler, B., & Stoll, S. (2022). Detecting structured repetition in child-surrounding speech: Evidence from maximally diverse languages Cognition, 221, 104986. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2021.104986
Loukatou, G., Stoll, S., Blasi, D., & Cristia, A. (2022). Does morphological complexity affect word segmentation? Evidence from computational modeling Cognition, 220, 104960. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2021.104960
Mansfield, J., Saldana, C., Hurst, P., Nordlinger, R., Stoll, S., Bickel, B., & Perfors, A. (2022). Category Clustering and Morphological Learning Cognitive Science, 46, e13107. https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.13107
Ger, E., Stuber, L., Küntay, A. C., Göksun, T., Stoll, S., & Daum, M. M. (2021). Influence of causal language on causal understanding: A comparison between Swiss German and Turkish Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 210, 105182. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2021.105182
You, G., Bickel, B., Daum, M. M., & Stoll, S. (2021). Child-directed speech is optimized for syntax-free semantic inference Scientific Reports, 11, 16527. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-95392-x
Mazara, J., & Stoll, S. (2021). Frequency vs. Salience in First Language Acquisition: The Acquisition of Aspect Marking in Chintang (No. 43). 840–846. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5px0n9ck
You, G., Daum, M. M., & Stoll, S. (2020). Processing causatives in first language acquisition: A computational approach 818–828. http://www.lingref.com/bucld/45/BUCLD45-61.pdf
Collier, K., Radford, A. N., Stoll, S., Watson, S. K., Manser, M. B., Bickel, B., & Townsend, S. W. (2020). Dwarf mongoose alarm calls: investigating a complex non-human animal call Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B: Biological Sciences, 287, 20192514. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2019.2514
Stoll, S. (2020). Sampling linguistic diversity to understand language development In C. Rowland, K. E. Twomey, B. Ambridge, & A. Theakston (Eds.), Current Perspectives on Child Language Acquisition (No. 27; pp. 247–263). John Benjamins Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1075/tilar.27.11sto
Stoll, S., & Schikowski, R. (2020). Child-language corpora In M. Paquot & S. Gries (Eds.), A Practical Handbook of Corpus Linguistics (pp. 305–329). Springer.
Mansfield, J., Stoll, S., & Bickel, B. (2020). Category clustering: A probabilistic bias in the morphology of verbal agreement marking Language, 96, 255–293. https://doi.org/10.1353/lan.2020.0021
Lester, N., Bickel, B., Moran, S., & Stoll, S. (2019). Speech Rates Differentiate Nouns and Verbs in Child-Surrounding and Child-Produced Speech: Evidence from Chintang (M. M. Brown & A. Kohut, Eds.; pp. 280–293). Cascadilla Press. http://www.lingref.com/bucld/44/BUCLD44-23.pdf
Mazara, J., & Stoll, S. (2019). How Do Children Become Flexible in Their Use of Grammatical Categories? The Aspect Hypothesis Revisited BUCLD: Proceedings of the Boston University Conference on Language Development, 363–375. https://www.lingref.com/bucld/44/BUCLD44-29.pdf
Mazara, J., & Stoll, S. (2019). Development of Verb Morphology: From Item-Specificity to Proficient Use 2325–2331. https://mindmodeling.org/cogsci2019/papers/0404/0404.pdf
Blasi, D., Cotterell, R., Wolf-Sonkin, L., Stoll, S., Bickel, B., & Baroni, M. (2019). On the Distribution of Deep Clausal Embeddings: A Large Cross-linguistic Study In A. Korhonen, D. Traum, & L. Màrquez (Eds.), Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (pp. 3938–3943). Association for Computational Linguistics. https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/P19-1384
Moran, S., Pajović, D., & Stoll, S. (2018). Cross-linguistically Small World Networks are Ubiquitous in Child-directed Speech In N. Calzolari (Ed.), Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2018) (pp. 4100–4105). European Language Resources Association (ELRA). http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2018/pdf/887.pdf
Bühler, J. C., von Oertzen, T., McBride, C. A., Stoll, S., & Maurer, U. (2018). Influence of dialect use on early reading and spelling acquisition in German-speaking children in Grade 1 Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 30, 336–360. https://doi.org/10.1080/20445911.2018.1444614
Jung, D., Klein, M., & Stoll, S. (2018). Language transition(s): School responses to recent changes in language choice in a northern Dene community (Canada) In G. Wigglesworth, J. Simpson, & G. Vaughan (Eds.), Language Practices of Indigenous Children and Youth: The Transition from Home to School (pp. 49–69). Palrgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-60120-9_3
Moran, S., Blasi, D. E., Schikowski, R., Küntay, A. C., Pfeiler, B., Allen, S., & Stoll, S. (2018). A universal cue for grammatical categories in the input to children: frequent frames Cognition, 175, 131–140. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2018.02.005
Townsend, S. W., Engesser, S., Stoll, S., Zuberbühler, K., & Bickel, B. (2018). Compositionality in animals and humans PLoS Biology, 16, e2006425. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.2006425
Stoll, S., Mazara, J., & Bickel, B. (2017). The acquisition of polysynthetic verb forms in Chintang In M. D. Fortescue, M. Mithun, & N. Evans (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Polysynthesis (pp. 495–514). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199683208.013.28
Townsend, S. W., Koski, S. E., Byrne, R. W., Slocombe, K. E., Bickel, B., Boeckle, M., Braga Goncalves, I., Burkart, J. M., Flower, T., Gaunet, F., Glock, H. J., Gruber, T., Jansen, D. A. W. A. M., Liebal, K., Linke, A., Miklósi, Á., Moore, R., van Schaik, C. P., Stoll, S., … Manser, M. B. (2017). Exorcising Grice’s ghost: an empirical approach to studying intentional communication in animals. Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, 92, 1427–1433. https://doi.org/10.1111/brv.12289
Moran, S., Schikowski, R., Pajović, D., Hysi, C., & Stoll, S. (2016). The ACQDIV Database: Min(d)ing the Ambient Language 4423–4429.
Stoll, S. (2016). Studying language acquisition in different linguistic and cultural settings. In N. Bonvillain (Ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Linguistic Anthropology (pp. 140–158). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203492741
Stoll, S. (2015). Inflectional morphology in language acquisition In M. Baerman (Ed.), Handbook of inflectional morphology (pp. 351–375). Oxford University Press.
Stoll, S., Zakharko, T., Moran, S., Schikowski, R., & Bickel, B. (2015). Syntactic mixing across generations in an environment of community-wide bilingualism Frontiers in Psychology, 6, 82. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00082
Stoll, S. (2015). Crosslinguistic approaches to language acquisition In E. Bavin & L. Naigles (Eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of Child Language (pp. 89–104). Cambridge University Press.
Bavin, E., & Stoll, S. (2013). The acquisition of ergativity (E. Bavin & S. Stoll, Eds.; Vol. 9). Benjamins.
Stoll, S., & Lieven, E. (2013). Studying language acquisition crosslinguistically In H. Winskel (Ed.), Handbook of South and Southeast Asian psycholinguistics (pp. 19–36). Cambridge University Press.
Stoll, S., & Bickel, B. (2013). Capturing diversity in language acquisition research In B. Bickel, L. A. Grenoble, D. A. Peterson, & A. Timberlake (Eds.), Language Typology and Historical Contingency (No. 104; pp. 195–216). John Benjamins Publishing Co. https://benjamins.com/#catalog/books/tsl.104.08slo/details
Gaenszle, M., Rai, I. P., Pettigrew, J., Rai, M., Bickel, B., Banjade, G., Bhatta, T. N., Lieven, E., Paudyal, N. P., & Stoll, S. (2013). Resisting the state in East Nepal: the `Chintang incident’ of 1979 and the politics of commemoration. In M. Lecomte-Tilouine (Ed.), Revolution in Nepal: an anthropological and historical approach to the People’s War (pp. 97–113). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198089384.003.0004
Stoll, S., & Bickel, B. (2013). The acquisition of ergative case in Chintang In S. Stoll & E. Bavin (Eds.), The acquisition of ergativity (pp. 183–207). Benjamins. https://benjamins.com/#catalog/books/tilar.9.07sto/details
Lieven, E., & Stoll, S. (2013). Early communicative development in two cultures: A comparison of the communicative environments of children from two cultures Human Development, 56, 178–206. https://doi.org/10.1159/000351073
Stoll, S., Bickel, B., Lieven, E., Banjade, G., Bhatta, T. N., Gaenszle, M., Paudyal, N. P., Pettigrew, J., Rai, I. P., Rai, M., & Rai, N. K. (2012). Nouns and verbs in Chintang: children’s usage and surrounding adult speech. Journal of Child Language, 39, 284–321. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305000911000080
Stoll, S., & Bickel, B. (2012). How to measure frequency? Different ways of counting ergatives in Chintang (Tibeto-Burman, Nepal) and their implications In F. Seifart, G. L. J. Haig, N. P. Himmelmann, D. Jung, A. Margetts, P. Trilsbeek, & P. Wittenburg (Eds.), Potentials of language documentation: methods, analyses, utilization (pp. 84–90). University of Hawai‘i Press.
राईनोवल किशोर, राईमनोज, पौड्यालनेत्र प्रसाद, Schikowski, R., Bickel, B., Stoll, S., Gaenszle, M., बन्जादेगोमा, राईइच्छा पूर्णा, भट्टतोया नाथ, Sauppe, S., राईरिखी माया, राईजनक कुमारी, राईलास कुमारी, राईदुर्ग बहादुर, राईगणेश, राईदयाराम, राईदुर्ग कुमारी, राईअनिता, … Dirksmeyer, T. (2011). छिन्ताङ-नेपाली-अँग्रेजी शब्दकोश तथा व्याकरण MPI.
Bickel, B., Rai, M., Paudyal, N. P., Banjade, G., Bhatta, T. N., Gaenszle, M., Lieven, E., Rai, I. P., Rai, N. K., & Stoll, S. (2010). The syntax of three-argument verbs in Chintang and Belhare (Southeastern Kiranti) In A. Malchukov, M. Haspelmath, & B. Comrie (Eds.), Studies in ditransitive constructions: a comparative handbook (pp. 382–408). De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110220377
Lieven, E., & Stoll, S. (2010). Language In M. Bornstein (Ed.), Handbook of cultural developmental science (pp. 143–160). Psychology Press. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lingua.2010.06.005
Paudyal, N. P., Bickel, B., Schikowski, R., Stoll, S., Lieven, E., Banjade, G., Rai, I. P., Rai, M., Gaenszle, M., Rai, N. K., & Bhatta, T. N. (2010). Non-finite adverbial subordination in Chintang Nepalese Linguistics, 25, 121–132.
Stoll, S., & Bickel, B. (2009). How deep are differences in referential density? In J. Guo, E. Lieven, N. Budwig, S. Ervin-Tripp, K. Nakamura, & Ş. Özçalişkan (Eds.), Crosslinguistic approaches to the psychology of language: research in the traditions of Dan Slobin (pp. 543–555). Psychology Press.
Rai, I. P., Bickel, B., Lieven, E., Banjade, G., Gaenszle, M., Rai, M., Paudyal, N. P., Rai, N. K., Stoll, S., & Bhatta, T. N. (2009). Mundum: a case study of Chintang ritual language In R. Mukherjee & M. N. Rajesh (Eds.), Locality, History, Memory: The Making of the Citizen in South Asia (pp. 20–33). Cambridge Scholars Publishing. http://www.c-s-p.org/flyers/Locality--History--Memory--The-Making-of-the-Citizen-in-South-Asia1-4438-0188-7.htm
Stoll, S., & Gries, S. T. (2009). How to measure development in corpora? An association strength approach Journal of Child Language, 36, 1075–1090. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305000909009337
Stoll, S. (2009). Crosslinguistic approaches to language acquisition In E. Bavin (Ed.), The Cambridge handbook of child language (pp. 69–89). Cambridge University Press.
Stoll, S., Abbot-Smith, K., & Lieven, E. (2009). Lexically restricted utterances in Russian, German and English child-directed speech Cognitive Science, 33, 75–103. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1551-6709.2008.01004.x
Bickel, B., Banjade, G., Gaenszle, M., Lieven, E., Paudyal, N. P., Rai, I. P., Rai, M., Rai, N. K., & Stoll, S. (2007). Free prefix ordering in Chintang Language, 83, 43–73. https://doi.org/10.1353/lan.2007.0002
Stoll, S. (2005). Beginning and end in the acquisition of the perfective aspect in Russian Journal of Child Language, 32, 805–825. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305000905007142
Gaenszle, M., Bickel, B., Banjade, G., Lieven, E., Paudyal, N. P., Rai, I. P., Rai, M., Rai, N. K., & Stoll, S. (2005). Worshipping the king god: a preliminary analysis of Chintang ritual language in the invocation of Rajdeu In Y. P. Yadava, G. Bhattarai, R. R. Lohani, B. Prasain, & K. Parajuli (Eds.), Contemporary issues in Nepalese linguistics (pp. 33–47). Linguistic Society of Nepal.
Rai, N. K., Bickel, B., Gaenszle, M., Lieven, E., Paudyal, N. P., Rai, I. P., Rai, M., & Stoll, S. (2005). Triplication and ideophones in Chintang In Y. P. Yadava (Ed.), Current issues in Nepalese linguistics (pp. 205–209). Linguistic Society of Nepal.
Stoll, S. (2003). Kognitive Entwicklung und Aspekterwerb In S. Haberzettl & H. Wegener (Eds.), Spracherwerb und Konzeptualisierung (pp. 127–138). Peter Lang.
Stoll, S. (2001). The acquisition of Russian aspect [UMI Publications]. (Dissertation, University of California, Berkeley) https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-86388
Stoll, S. (2000). On the Desinence {-t(')} of the Early East Slavic Imperfect Russian Linguistics, 24, 265–285. https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1026513201806
Stoll, S. (1998). The role of Aktionsart in the acquisition of Russian aspect First Language, 18, 351–376. https://doi.org/10.1177/014272379801805405

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Mazara, J., Loporcaro, M., & Stoll, S. (2024). Acquisition of gender agreement depends on frequency distributions in specific contexts Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2496–2502. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/16b5s7hq
Gaenszle, M., Bickel, B., Banjade, G., Lieven, E., Paudyal, N., Rai, A., Rai, I., Rai, M., Rai, N. K., Rai, V. S., Gautam, N., & Stoll, S. (2005). Research report: the Chintang and Puma Documentation Project (CPDP) European Bulletin Of Himalayan Research, 28, 90–97.

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Gries, S., & Stoll, S. (2009). Finding developmental groups in acquisition data: variability-based neighbor clustering Journal of Quantitative Linguistics, 16, 217–242. https://doi.org/10.1080/09296170902975692

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