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Mike Frank
3 months 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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alvin tan
Mike Frank
4 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
5 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
5 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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alvin tan
Mike Frank
5 months ago
Come see us at
#cogsci2025
! Hereās a (revised) list of posters and talks from my lab!
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Mike Frank
9 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/
10 months ago
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ManyBabies
about 1 year 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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