- Fokusthemen: Psycholinguistik, Spracherwerb, Sprachevolution, Tierkommunikation
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Children Learn Causatives Despite Pervasive Ellipsis: Evidence from Turkish. Journal of Child Language:1-22.
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Negation in first language acquisition: Universal or language-specific?. Cognitive Science, 49(2):e70044.
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Vocal-visual combinations in wild chimpanzees. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 78(10):108.
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Adults Adapt to Child Speech in Causative Semantics. Cognitive Science, 48(9):e13495.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Gradual Route to Productivity: Evidence from Turkish Morphological Causatives. Cognitive Science, 46(12):13210.
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From collocations to call-ocations: using linguistic methods to quantify animal call combinations. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 76:122.
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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.
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Do typological differences in the expression of causality influence preschool children’s causal event construal?. Language and Cognition, 14(2):161-184.
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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.
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The function and evolution of child-directed communication. PLoS Biology, 20(5):e3001630.
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Category Clustering and Morphological Learning. Cognitive Science, 46(2):e13107.
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Influence of causal language on causal understanding: A comparison between Swiss German and Turkish. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 210:105182.
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Child-directed speech is optimized for syntax-free semantic inference. Scientific Reports, 11(1):16527.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Category clustering: A probabilistic bias in the morphology of verbal agreement marking. Language, 96(2):255-293.
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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.
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Child-language corpora. In: Paquot, Magali; Gries, Stefan. A Practical Handbook of Corpus Linguistics. Cham: Springer, 305-329.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Compositionality in animals and humans. PLoS Biology, 16(8):e2006425.
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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.
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A universal cue for grammatical categories in the input to children: frequent frames. Cognition, 175:131-140.
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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.
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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.
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Exorcising Grice's ghost: an empirical approach to studying intentional communication in animals. Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, 92(3):1427-1433.
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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.
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Studying language acquisition in different linguistic and cultural settings.. In: Bonvillain, Nancy. The Routledge Handbook of Linguistic Anthropology. New York: Routledge, 140-158.
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Crosslinguistic approaches to language acquisition. In: Bavin, Edith; Naigles, Letitia. The Cambridge Handbook of Child Language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 89-104.
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Syntactic mixing across generations in an environment of community-wide bilingualism. Frontiers in Psychology, 6:82.
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Inflectional morphology in language acquisition. In: Baerman, Matthew. Handbook of inflectional morphology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 351-375.
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The acquisition of ergativity. Edited by: Bavin, Edith; Stoll, Sabine (2013). Amsterdam: Benjamins.
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Studying language acquisition crosslinguistically. In: Winskel, Heather. Handbook of South and Southeast Asian psycholinguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 19-36.
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Early communicative development in two cultures: A comparison of the communicative environments of children from two cultures. Human Development, 56(3):178-206.
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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.
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The acquisition of ergative case in Chintang. In: Stoll, Sabine; Bavin, Edith. The acquisition of ergativity. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 183-207.
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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.
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Nouns and verbs in Chintang: children's usage and surrounding adult speech. Journal of Child Language, 39(2):284 - 321.
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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.
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छिन्ताङ-नेपाली-अँग्रेजी शब्दकोश तथा व्याकरण. Kathmandu: MPI.
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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.
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Language. In: Bornstein, Marc. Handbook of cultural developmental science. New York, London: Psychology Press, 143-160.
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Non-finite adverbial subordination in Chintang. Nepalese Linguistics, 25:121-132.
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How to measure development in corpora? An association strength approach. Journal of Child Language, 36(5):1075-1090.
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Crosslinguistic approaches to language acquisition. In: Bavin, Edith. The Cambridge handbook of child language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 69-89.
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Lexically restricted utterances in Russian, German and English child-directed speech. Cognitive Science, 33:75-103.
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How deep are differences in referential density?. In: Guo, Jiansheng; Lieven, Elena; Budwig, Nancy; Ervin-Tripp, Susan; Nakamura, Keiko; Özçalişkan, Şeyda. Crosslinguistic approaches to the psychology of language: research in the traditions of Dan Slobin. London: Psychology Press, 543-555.
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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.
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Free prefix ordering in Chintang. Language, 83(1):43-73.
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Triplication and ideophones in Chintang. In: Yadava, Yogendra P. Current issues in Nepalese linguistics. Kirtipur: Linguistic Society of Nepal, 205-209.
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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.
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Beginning and end in the acquisition of the perfective aspect in Russian. Journal Of Child Language, 32(04):805-825.
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Kognitive Entwicklung und Aspekterwerb. In: Haberzettl, Stefanie; Wegener, Heide. Spracherwerb und Konzeptualisierung. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 127-138.
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The acquisition of Russian aspect. 2001, University of California, Berkeley, Faculty of Arts.
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On the Desinence {-t(')} of the Early East Slavic Imperfect. Russian Linguistics, 24(2):265-285.
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The role of Aktionsart in the acquisition of Russian aspect. First Language, 18(54):351-376.
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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.
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Research report: the Chintang and Puma Documentation Project (CPDP). European Bulletin Of Himalayan Research, 28:90-97.
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Finding developmental groups in acquisition data: variability-based neighbor clustering. Journal of Quantitative Linguistics, 16:217-242.