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Mike Frank
30 days ago
How do you measure early language development in languages where you don't have word lists? New paper: Measuring childrenās early vocabulary in low-resource languages using a Swadesh-style word list - led by
@kachergis.bsky.social
and
@alvinwmtan.bsky.social
osf.io/njm7d_v1
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Mike Frank
2 months ago
*Sharing for our departmentās trainees* š§ Looking for insight on applying to PhD programs in psychology? ⨠Apply by Sep 25th to Stanford Psychology's 9th annual Paths to a Psychology PhD info-session/workshop to have all of your questions answered! š Application:
tinyurl.com/pathstophd2025
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Ben Prystawski
3 months ago
When people form conventions in reference games, how easy are they for outsiders to interpret? (for values of "outsider" that include naĆÆve humans and vision-language models) Check out
@vboyce.bsky.social
's poster today at
#CogSci2025
to find out. paper:
escholarship.org/uc/item/16c4...
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Idiosyncratic but not opaque: Linguistic conventions formed in reference games are interpretable by naĆĀÆve humans and visionĆ¢ā¬ālanguage models
Author(s): Boyce, Veronica; Prystawski, Ben; Tan, Alvin Wei Ming; Frank, Michael C. | Abstract: When are in-group linguistic conventions opaque to non-group members (teen slang like "rizz") or general...
https://escholarship.org/uc/item/16c4n85d
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alvin tan
3 months ago
New
#cogsci2025
paper! with
@tobigerstenberg.bsky.social
In āGenerics Revisited: Analyzing generalizations in childrenās books and caregiversā speechā we revisit the connection between generic use in childrenās language input and psychological essentialism.
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Mike Frank
3 months ago
Come see us at
#cogsci2025
! Hereās a (revised) list of posters and talks from my lab!
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Mike Frank
7 months ago
Super excited to submit a big sabbatical project this year: "Continuous developmental changes in word recognition support language learning across early childhood":
osf.io/preprints/ps...
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When I was finishing undergrad, I put together a short reader in the history and philosophy of linguistics. I've now ported it to Quarto Book and added a new chapter on computational approaches (along with other updates). Feedback is welcome! š
alvinwmtan.github.io/ling-approac...
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Approaches to Linguistics
https://alvinwmtan.github.io/ling-approaches/
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ManyBabies
12 months ago
šØPublication Alert!šØ The ManyBabies4 paper is out! 37 labs around the world tested over 1,000 babies in the largest investigation of infants' social evaluation to date.
doi.org/10.1111/desc...
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Infantsā Social Evaluation of Helpers and Hinderers: A LargeāScale, MultiāLab, Coordinated Replication Study
Evaluating whether someone's behavior is praiseworthy or blameworthy is a fundamental human trait. A seminal study by Hamlin and colleagues in 2007 suggested that the ability to form social evaluatio...
https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.13581
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