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(1), 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
Schick, Johanna; Daum, Moritz M; Stoll, Sabine (2025). Input to the Language Learning Infant: The Impact of Other Children Developmental Science, 28(5):e70045.
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(8), 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(26), eadt7718. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adt7718
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, Epub ahead of print. https://doi.org/10.1177/01427237251336806
You, Guanghao; Ger, Ebru; Daum, Moritz M; Stoll, Sabine (2025). Children Learn Causatives Despite Pervasive Ellipsis: Evidence from Turkish Journal of Child Language:1-22.
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, Sakine; Mazara, Jekaterina; Küntay, Aylin C; Hellwig, Birgit; Pfeiler, Barbara B; Widmer, Paul; Stoll, Sabine (2025). Negation in first language acquisition: Universal or language-specific?
Mine, Joseph G; Wilke, Claudia; Zulberti, Chiara; Behjati, Melika; Bosshard, Alexandra B; Stoll, Sabine; Machanda, Zarin P; Manser, Andri; Slocombe, Katie E; Townsend, Simon W (2024). Vocal-visual combinations in wild chimpanzees Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 78(10):108.
You, Guanghao; Daum, Moritz M; Stoll, Sabine (2024). Adults Adapt to Child Speech in Causative Semantics Cognitive Science, 48(9):e13495.
Morozova, Natalia; You, Guanghao; Stoll, Sabine; Bangerter, Adrian (2024). Measuring acoustic dissimilarity of hierarchical markers in task-oriented dialogue with MFCC-based dynamic time warping In: Interspeech 2024, Kos, Greece, 1 September 2024 - 5 September 2024. ISCA, 4763-4767.
Hardegger, Selma; Mazara, Jekatarina; Küntay, Aylin C; Hellwig, Birgit; Pfeiler, Barbara; Stoll, Sabine (2024). Verbs or Nouns? A cross-linguistic study examining the effect of morphological complexity and input on children's early lexical development In: Annual Meetings of the Cognitive Science Society, Rotterdam, 24 Juli 2024 - 27 Juli 2024. UC Merced, 2354-2361.
Mazara, Jekatarina; Loporcaro, Michele; Stoll, Sabine (2024). Acquisition of gender agreement depends on frequency distributions in specific contexts In: Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Rotterdam, 24 Juli 2024 - 27 Juli 2024. UC Merced, 2496-2502.
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, Olivier; Baroni, Marco; Stoll, Sabine (2023). Getting Creative: A Language Modeling Approach to Predicting Child Utterances in 12 Typologically Diverse Languages In: 47th annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, Sommerville, MA, 2 November 2022 - 5 November 2022. Cascadilla Press, 672-685.
Feurstein, Liudmyla; Furrer, Reinhard; Stoll, Sabine (2023). Turn-Taking Predicts Vocabulary Acquisition at 18 Months: A Study of Daylong Recordings In: 47th annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, Sommerville, MA, 2 November 2022 - 5 November 2022. Cascadilla Press, 255-267.
Ger, Ebru; You, Guanghao; Küntay, Aylin C; Göksun, Tilbe; Stoll, Sabine; Daum, Moritz M (2022). Gradual Route to Productivity: Evidence from Turkish Morphological Causatives Cognitive Science, 46(12):13210.
Bosshard, Alexandra B; Leroux, Maël; Lester, Nicholas A; Bickel, Balthasar; Stoll, Sabine; Townsend, Simon W (2022). From collocations to call-ocations: using linguistic methods to quantify animal call combinations Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 76:122.
Mazara, Jekaterina; Lieven, Elena; Stoll, Sabine (2022). How Do Children Combine Pointing and Language in the Earliest Stages of Development? A Case Study of Russian and Chintang In: The 44th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Toronto, Canada, 27 July 2022 - 30 July 2022. UC Merced, 3696-3702.
Rüst, Olivier; Baroni, Marco; Stoll, Sabine (2022). The Acquisition of Case Systems in Typologically Diverse Languages: Children Gradually Generalize Grammatical Rules In: Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD), Boston, 4 November 2021 - 7 November 2021. Cascadilla Press, 672-685.
Ger, Ebru; Küntay, Aylin C; Göksun, Tilbe; Stoll, Sabine; Daum, Moritz M (2022). Do typological differences in the expression of causality influence preschool children’s causal event construal?
Schick, Johanna; Fryns, Caroline; Wegdell, Franziska; Laporte, Marion; Zuberbühler, Klaus; van Schaik, Carel P; Townsend, Simon W; Stoll, Sabine (2022). The function and evolution of child-directed communication PLoS Biology, 20(5):e3001630.
Lester, Nicholas A; Moran, Steven; Küntay, Aylin C; Allen, Shanley E M; Pfeiler, Barbara; Stoll, Sabine (2022). Detecting structured repetition in child-surrounding speech: Evidence from maximally diverse languages Cognition, 221:104986.
Loukatou, Georgia; Stoll, Sabine; Blasi, Damian; Cristia, Alejandrina (2022). Does morphological complexity affect word segmentation? Evidence from computational modeling Cognition, 220:104960.
Mansfield, John; Saldana, Carmen; Hurst, Peter; Nordlinger, Rachel; Stoll, Sabine; Bickel, Balthasar; Perfors, Andrew (2022). Category Clustering and Morphological Learning Cognitive Science, 46(2):e13107.
Ger, Ebru; Stuber, Larissa; Küntay, Aylin C; Göksun, Tilbe; Stoll, Sabine; Daum, Moritz M (2021). Influence of causal language on causal understanding: A comparison between Swiss German and Turkish Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 210:105182.
You, Guanghao; Bickel, Balthasar; Daum, Moritz M; Stoll, Sabine (2021). Child-directed speech is optimized for syntax-free semantic inference Scientific Reports, 11(1):16527.
Mazara, Jekaterina; Stoll, Sabine (2021). Frequency vs. Salience in First Language Acquisition: The Acquisition of Aspect Marking in Chintang In: Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, online, July 2021. California Digital Library, 840-846.
You, Guanghao; Daum, Moritz M; Stoll, Sabine (2020). Processing causatives in first language acquisition: A computational approach In: Conference on Language Development / Proceedings of the 45th annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston University, November 2020. Cascadilla Press, 818-828.
Collier, Katie; Radford, Andrew N; Stoll, Sabine; Watson, Stuart K; Manser, Marta B; Bickel, Balthasar; Townsend, Simon 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(1935):20192514.
Stoll, Sabine (2020). Sampling linguistic diversity to understand language development In: Rowland, Caroline; Twomey, Katherine E; Ambridge, Ben; Theakston, Anna . Current Perspectives on Child Language Acquisition. Amsterdam, Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing, 247-263.
Stoll, Sabine; Schikowski, Robert (2020). Child-language corpora In: Paquot, Magali; Gries, Stefan . A Practical Handbook of Corpus Linguistics. Cham: Springer, 305-329.
Mansfield, John; Stoll, Sabine; Bickel, Balthasar (2020). Category clustering: A probabilistic bias in the morphology of verbal agreement marking Language, 96(2):255-293.
Mazara, Jekaterina; Stoll, Sabine (2019). How Do Children Become Flexible in Their Use of Grammatical Categories? The Aspect Hypothesis Revisited In: 44th annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston, 7 November 2019 - 10 November 2019. Cascadilla Press, 363-375.
Lester, Nicholas; Bickel, Balthasar; Moran, Steven; Stoll, Sabine (2019). Speech Rates Differentiate Nouns and Verbs in Child-Surrounding and Child-Produced Speech: Evidence from Chintang In: Proceedings of the 44th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston, 7 November 2019 - 10 November 2019. Cascadilla Press, 280-293.
Mazara, Jekaterina; Stoll, Sabine (2019). Development of Verb Morphology: From Item-Specificity to Proficient Use In: The 41st Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Montreal, QC, 24 July 2019 - 27 July 2019. CogSci, 2325-2331.
Blasi, Damian; Cotterell, Ryan; Wolf-Sonkin, Lawrence; Stoll, Sabine; Bickel, Balthasar; Baroni, Marco (2019). On the Distribution of Deep Clausal Embeddings: A Large Cross-linguistic Study In: Korhonen, Anna; Traum, David; Màrquez, Lluís . Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Florence: Association for Computational Linguistics, 3938-3943.
Moran, Steven; Pajović, Danica; Stoll, Sabine (2018). Cross-linguistically Small World Networks are Ubiquitous in Child-directed Speech In: Calzolari, Nicoletta . Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2018). Paris: European Language Resources Association (ELRA), 4100-4105.
Bühler, Jessica C; von Oertzen, Timo; McBride, Catherine A; Stoll, Sabine; Maurer, Urs (2018). Influence of dialect use on early reading and spelling acquisition in German-speaking children in Grade 1 Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 30(3):336-360.
Townsend, Simon W; Engesser, Sabrina; Stoll, Sabine; Zuberbühler, Klaus; Bickel, Balthasar (2018). Compositionality in animals and humans PLoS Biology, 16(8):e2006425.
Jung, Dagmar; Klein, Mark; Stoll, Sabine (2018). Language transition(s): School responses to recent changes in language choice in a northern Dene community (Canada) In: Wigglesworth, Gillian; Simpson, Jane; Vaughan, Gill . Language Practices of Indigenous Children and Youth: The Transition from Home to School. UK: Palrgrave Macmillan, 49-69.
Moran, Steven; Blasi, Damián E; Schikowski, Robert; Küntay, Aylin C; Pfeiler, Barbara; Allen, Shanley; Stoll, Sabine (2018). A universal cue for grammatical categories in the input to children: frequent frames Cognition, 175:131-140.
Stoll, Sabine; Mazara, Jekatarina; Bickel, Balthasar (2017). The acquisition of polysynthetic verb forms in Chintang In: Fortescue, Michael D; Mithun, Marianne; Evans, Nicholas . The Oxford Handbook of Polysynthesis. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 495 - 514.
Townsend, Simon W; Koski, Sonja E; Byrne, Richard W; Slocombe, Katie E; Bickel, Balthasar; Boeckle, Markus; Braga Goncalves, Ines; Burkart, Judith M; Flower, Tom; Gaunet, Florence; Glock, Hans Johann; Gruber, Thibaud; Jansen, David A W A M; Liebal, Katja; Linke, Angelika; Miklósi, Ádám; Moore, Richard; van Schaik, Carel P; Stoll, Sabine; Vail, Alex; Waller, Bridget M; Wild, Markus; Zuberbühler, Klaus; Manser, Marta B (2017). Exorcising Grice's ghost: an empirical approach to studying intentional communication in animals Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, 92(3):1427-1433.
Moran, Steven; Schikowski, Robert; Pajović, Danica; Hysi, Cazim; Stoll, Sabine (2016). The ACQDIV Database: Min(d)ing the Ambient Language In: Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2016), Portorož, Slovenia, 23 May 2016 - 28 May 2016. European Language Resources Association (ELRA), 4423-4429.
Stoll, Sabine (2016). Studying language acquisition in different linguistic and cultural settings.
Stoll, Sabine (2015). Inflectional morphology in language acquisition In: Baerman, Matthew . Handbook of inflectional morphology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 351-375.
Stoll, Sabine; Zakharko, Taras; Moran, Steven; Schikowski, Robert; Bickel, Balthasar (2015). Syntactic mixing across generations in an environment of community-wide bilingualism Frontiers in Psychology, 6:82.
Stoll, Sabine (2015). Crosslinguistic approaches to language acquisition In: Bavin, Edith; Naigles, Letitia . The Cambridge Handbook of Child Language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 89-104.
Bavin, Edith; Stoll, Sabine The acquisition of ergativity Edited by: Bavin, Edith; Stoll, Sabine (2013). Amsterdam: Benjamins.
Stoll, Sabine; Bickel, Balthasar (2013). Capturing diversity in language acquisition research In: Bickel, Balthasar; Grenoble, Lenore A; Peterson, David A; Timberlake, Alan . Language Typology and Historical Contingency. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Co., 195 - 216.
Stoll, Sabine; Lieven, Elena (2013). Studying language acquisition crosslinguistically In: Winskel, Heather . Handbook of South and Southeast Asian psycholinguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 19-36.
Lieven, Elena; Stoll, Sabine (2013). Early communicative development in two cultures: A comparison of the communicative environments of children from two cultures Human Development, 56(3):178-206.
Gaenszle, Martin; Rai, Ichchha Purna; Pettigrew, Judith; Rai, Manoj; Bickel, Balthasar; Banjade, Goma; Bhatta, Toya Nath; Lieven, Elena; Paudyal, Netra P; Stoll, Sabine (2013). Resisting the state in East Nepal: the `Chintang incident' of 1979 and the politics of commemoration In: Lecomte-Tilouine, Marie . Revolution in Nepal: an anthropological and historical approach to the People's War. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 97 - 113.
Stoll, Sabine; Bickel, Balthasar (2013). The acquisition of ergative case in Chintang In: Stoll, Sabine; Bavin, Edith . The acquisition of ergativity. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 183-207.
Stoll, Sabine; Bickel, Balthasar; Lieven, Elena; Banjade, Goma; Bhatta, Toya Nath; Gaenszle, Martin; Paudyal, Netra P; Pettigrew, Judith; Rai, Ichchha Purna; Rai, Manoj; Rai, Novel Kishore (2012). Nouns and verbs in Chintang: children's usage and surrounding adult speech Journal of Child Language, 39(2):284 - 321.
Stoll, Sabine; Bickel, Balthasar (2012). How to measure frequency? Different ways of counting ergatives in Chintang (Tibeto-Burman, Nepal) and their implications In: Seifart, Frank; Haig, Geoffrey L J; Himmelmann, Nikolaus P; Jung, Dagmar; Margetts, Anna; Trilsbeek, Paul; Wittenburg, Peter . Potentials of language documentation: methods, analyses, utilization. Manoa: University of Hawai‘i Press, 84-90.
राई, नोवल किशोर; राई, मनोज; पौड्याल, नेत्र प्रसाद; Schikowski, Robert; Bickel, Balthasar; Stoll, Sabine; Gaenszle, Martin; बन्जादे, गोमा; राई, इच्छा पूर्णा; भट्ट, तोया नाथ; Sauppe, Sebastian; राई, रिखी माया; राई, जनक कुमारी; राई, लास कुमारी; राई, दुर्ग बहादुर; राई, गणेश; राई, दयाराम; राई, दुर्ग कुमारी; राई, अनिता; राई, चन्द्र कुमारी; राई, शन्ति माया; राई, रविन्द्र कुमार; Pettygrew, Judith; Dirksmeyer, Tyko (2011). छिन्ताङ-नेपाली-अँग्रेजी शब्दकोश तथा व्याकरण Kathmandu: MPI.
Paudyal, Netra P; Bickel, Balthasar; Schikowski, Robert; Stoll, Sabine; Lieven, Elena; Banjade, Goma; Rai, Ichchha Purna; Rai, Manoj; Gaenszle, Martin; Rai, Novel Kishore; Bhatta, Toya Nath (2010). Non-finite adverbial subordination in Chintang Nepalese Linguistics, 25:121-132.
Bickel, Balthasar; Rai, Manoj; Paudyal, Netra P; Banjade, Goma; Bhatta, Toya Nath; Gaenszle, Martin; Lieven, Elena; Rai, Ichchha Purna; Rai, Novel Kishore; Stoll, Sabine (2010). The syntax of three-argument verbs in Chintang and Belhare (Southeastern Kiranti) In: Malchukov, Andrej; Haspelmath, Martin; Comrie, Bernard . Studies in ditransitive constructions: a comparative handbook. Berlin: De Gruyter, 382-408.
Lieven, Elena; Stoll, Sabine (2010). Language In: Bornstein, Marc . Handbook of cultural developmental science. New York, London: Psychology Press, 143-160.
Rai, Ichchha Purna; Bickel, Balthasar; Lieven, Elena; Banjade, Goma; Gaenszle, Martin; Rai, Manoj; Paudyal, Netra P; Rai, Novel Kishore; Stoll, Sabine; Bhatta, Toya Nath (2009). Mundum: a case study of Chintang ritual language In: Mukherjee, Rila; Rajesh, M N . Locality, History, Memory: The Making of the Citizen in South Asia. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 20-33.
Stoll, Sabine; Bickel, Balthasar (2009). How deep are differences in referential density?
Stoll, Sabine; Gries, Stefan Th (2009). How to measure development in corpora? An association strength approach Journal of Child Language, 36(5):1075-1090.
Stoll, Sabine (2009). Crosslinguistic approaches to language acquisition In: Bavin, Edith . The Cambridge handbook of child language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 69-89.
Stoll, Sabine; Abbot-Smith, Kirsten; Lieven, Elena (2009). Lexically restricted utterances in Russian, German and English child-directed speech Cognitive Science, 33:75-103.
Bickel, Balthasar; Banjade, Goma; Gaenszle, Martin; Lieven, Elena; Paudyal, Netra P; Rai, Ichchha Purna; Rai, Manoj; Rai, Novel Kishore; Stoll, Sabine (2007). Free prefix ordering in Chintang Language, 83(1):43-73.
Rai, Novel Kishore; Bickel, Balthasar; Gaenszle, Martin; Lieven, Elena; Paudyal, Netra P; Rai, Ichchha Purna; Rai, Manoj; Stoll, Sabine (2005). Triplication and ideophones in Chintang In: Yadava, Yogendra P . Current issues in Nepalese linguistics. Kirtipur: Linguistic Society of Nepal, 205-209.
Gaenszle, Martin; Bickel, Balthasar; Banjade, Goma; Lieven, Elena; Paudyal, Netra P; Rai, Ichchha Purna; Rai, Manoj; Rai, Novel Kishore; Stoll, Sabine (2005). Worshipping the king god: a preliminary analysis of Chintang ritual language in the invocation of Rajdeu In: Yadava, Yogendra P; Bhattarai, Govinda; Lohani, Ram Raj; Prasain, Balaram; Parajuli, Krishna . Contemporary issues in Nepalese linguistics. Kathmandu: Linguistic Society of Nepal, 33-47.
Stoll, Sabine (2005). Beginning and end in the acquisition of the perfective aspect in Russian Journal Of Child Language, 32(04):805-825.
Stoll, Sabine (2003). Kognitive Entwicklung und Aspekterwerb In: Haberzettl, Stefanie; Wegener, Heide . Spracherwerb und Konzeptualisierung. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 127-138.
Stoll, Sabine . The acquisition of Russian aspect 2001, University of California, Berkeley, Faculty of Arts.
Stoll, Sabine (2000). On the Desinence {-t(')} of the Early East Slavic Imperfect Russian Linguistics, 24(2):265-285.
Stoll, Sabine (1998). The role of Aktionsart in the acquisition of Russian aspect First Language, 18(54):351-376.

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Mazara, Jekatarina; Loporcaro, Michele; Stoll, Sabine (2024). Acquisition of gender agreement depends on frequency distributions in specific contexts In: Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Rotterdam, 24 Juli 2024 - 27 Juli 2024. UC Merced, 2496-2502.
Gaenszle, Martin; Bickel, Balthasar; Banjade, Goma; Lieven, Elena; Paudyal, Netra; Rai, Arjun; Rai, Ichchha; Rai, Manoj; Rai, Novel Kishore; Rai, Vishnu Singh; Gautam, Narayan; Stoll, Sabine (2005). Research report: the Chintang and Puma Documentation Project (CPDP) European Bulletin Of Himalayan Research, 28:90-97.

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Gries, Stefan; Stoll, Sabine (2009). Finding developmental groups in acquisition data: variability-based neighbor clustering Journal of Quantitative Linguistics, 16:217-242.

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