how do people jointly traverse semantic space in conversation? in this cogsci paper, we consider conversation as a form of joint action in which people explore content with nested levels of specificity. conversations and topics start out the same and get idiosyncratic as they progress. osf.io/69yw2/

exciting to see more language acquisition work shifting the lens to peer communication! @clairebergey.bsky.social is organizing a CogSci symposium highlighting related lines of work this summer!

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...

congrats to @clairebergey.bsky.social on the excellent work!! “Overall, people are able to use contrastive inferences from description to resolve reference and make inferences about a novel object’s category, letting them learn more about new things than literal meaning alone allows.”