Papers

Bogaerts, L., Siegelman, N., Christiansen, M.H. & Frost, R. (2022). Is there such a thing as a ‘good statistical learner’? Trends in Cognitive Science, 26, 25-37.

Chater, N. & Christiansen, M. H. (2022). Grammar through spontaneous order. In S. Lappin & J.-P. Bernady (Eds.), Algebraic structures in natural language (pp. 61-75). Abingdon, UK: CRC Press.

Christiansen, M.H., Contreras Kallens, P. & Trecca, F. (2022). Towards a comparative approach to language acquisition. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 31, 131-138.

Christiansen, M.H., Contreras Kallens, P. & Trecca, F. (2022). We need a comparative approach to language acquisition: A commentary on Kidd and Garcia (2022). First Language, 42, 751-755

Contreras Kallens & Christiansen, M.H. (2022). Models of language and multiword expressions. Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence, 5:781962.

Contreras Kallens, P., Dale, R. & Christiansen, M.H. (2022). Quantifying interdisciplinarity in cognitive science and beyond. Topics in Cognitive Science, 14, 634–645.

Gómez-Rodríguez, C., Christiansen, M.H. & Ferrer-i-Cancho, R. (2022). Memory limitations are hidden in grammar. Glottometrics, 52, 39-64.

Isbilen, E.S. & Christiansen, M.H. (2022). Statistical learning of language: A meta-analysis into 25 years of research. Cognitive Science, 46, e13198.

Isbilen, E.S., Frost, R.L.A., Monaghan, P. & Christiansen, M.H. (2022). Statistically-based chunking of non-adjacent dependencies. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 151, 2623–2640.

Isbilen, E.S., McCauley, S.M. & Christiansen, M.H. (2022). Individual differences in artificial and natural language statistical learning. Cognition, 225, 105123.

Strømberg-Derczynski, L., Ciosici, M. R., Baglini, R., Christiansen, M. H., Dalsgaard, J. A., Fusaroli, R., … & Varab, D. (2021). The Danish Gigaword Corpus. In Proceedings of the 23rd Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics (NoDaLiDa) (pp. 413-421). Linköping, Sweden: Linköping University Electronic Press.

Trecca, F., Tylén, K., Højen, A. & Christiansen, M.H. (2021). Danish as a window onto language processing and learning. Language Learning, 71, 799-833.

Aryani, A., Isbilen, E.S. & Christiansen, M.H. (2020). Affective arousal links sound to meaning. Psychological Science, 31, 978-986.

Bogaerts, L., Frost, R. & Christiansen, M.H. (2020). Integrating statistical learning into cognitive science. Journal of Memory and Language, 115, 104167.

Culbertson, G., Andersen, E. & Christiansen, M.H. (2020). Using utterance recall to assess second-language proficiency. Language Learning, 70:S2, 104-132.

Frinsel, F.F., Trecca, F. & Christiansen, M.H. (2020). The Picture Guessing Game: The role of feedback in active artificial language learning. In S. Denison., M. Mack, Y. Xu & B.C. Armstrong (Eds.), Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 2813-2819). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.

Frost, R.L.A., Dunn, K., Christiansen, M.H., Gómez, R.L. & Monaghan, P. (2020). Exploring the “anchor word” effect in infants: Segmentation and categorisation of speech with and without high frequency words. PLoS ONE, 15(12): e0243436.

Isbilen, E.S. & Christiansen, M.H. (2020). Chunk-based memory constraints on the cultural evolution of language. Topics in Cognitive Science, 12, 713–726.

Isbilen, E.S., McCauley, S.M., Kidd, E. & Christiansen, M.H. (2020). Statistically-induced chunking recall: A memory-based approach to statistical learning. Cognitive Science, 44, e12848.

Jolsvai, H., McCauley, S.M. & Christiansen, M.H. (2020). Meaningfulness beats frequency in multiword chunk processing. Cognitive Science, 44, e12885.

Kidd,, E., Arciuli, J., Christiansen, M.H., Isbilen, E.S., Revius,, K. & Smithson, M. (2020). Measuring children’s auditory statistical learning via serial recall. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 200, 104964.

Trecca, F., Bleses, D., Højen, A., Madsen, T.O., & Christiansen, M.H. (2020). When too many vowels impede language processing: An eye-tracking study of Danish-learning children. Speech and Language, 63, 898-918.

Trotter, A.S., Monaghan, P., Beckers, G.J.L. & Christiansen, M.H. (2020). Exploring variation between artificial grammar learning experiments: Outlining a meta-analysis approach. Topics in Cognitive Science, 12, 875-893.

Christiansen, M.H. (2019). Implicit-statistical learning: A tale of two literatures. Topics in Cognitive Science, 11, 468-481.

Dideriksen, C., Fusaroli, R., Tylén, K., Dingemanse, M. & Christiansen, M.H. (2019). Contextualizing conversational strategies: Backchannel, repair and linguistic alignment in spontaneous and task- oriented conversations. In A. Goel, C. Seifert & C. Freksa (Eds.), Proceedings of the 41st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pp. 261-267). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.

Emberson, L.L., Misyak, J.B., Schwade, J., Christiansen, M.H. & Goldstein, M.H. (2019). Comparing statistical learning across perceptual modalities in infancy: An investigation of underlying learning mechanism(s). Developmental Science, 22, e12847.

Frost, R., Armstrong, B.C. & Christiansen, M.H. (2019). Statistical learning research: A critical review and possible directions. Psychological Bulletin, 145, 1128-1153.

Frost, R.L.A., Isbilen, E.S, Christiansen, M.H. & Monaghan, P. (2019). Testing the limits of non-adjacent dependency learning: Statistical segmentation and generalization across domains. In A. Goel, C. Seifert & C. Freksa (Eds.), Proceedings of the 41st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1787-1793). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.

Frost, R.L.A., Monaghan, P. & Christiansen, M.H. (2019). Mark my words: High frequency marker words assist early stages of language learning. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 45, 1883-1898.

Isbilen, E.S., Christiansen, M.H. & Chater, N. (2019). It’s about time: Adding processing to neuroemergentism. Journal of Neurolinguistics, 49, 224-227.

Ishkhanyan, B., Højen, A., Fusaroli, R., Johansson, C., Tylén, K. & Christiansen, M.H. (2019). Wait for it! Stronger influence of context on categorical perception in Danish than Norwegian. In A. Goel, C. Seifert & C. Freksa (Eds.), Proceedings of the 41st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1949-1955). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.

Jost, E., Brill-Schuetz, K., Morgan-Short, K. & Christiansen, M.H. (2019). Input complexity affects long- term retention of statistically learned regularities in an artificial language learning task. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 13, 358. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2019.00358.

Kerz, E., Wiechmann, D. & Christiansen, M.H. (2019). Tuning to multiple statistics: Second language processing of multiword sequences across registers. In A. Goel, C. Seifert & C. Freksa (Eds.), Proceedings of the 41st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 546-552). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.

McCauley, S.M. & Christiansen, M.H. (2019). Language learning as language use: A cross-linguistic model of child language development. Psychological Review, 126, 1-51.

McCauley, S.M. & Christiansen, M.H. (2019). Modeling children’s early linguistic productivity through the automatic discovery and use of lexically-based frames. In A. Goel, C. Seifert & C. Freksa (Eds.), Proceedings of the 41st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 782-788). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.

Trecca, F., McCauley, S.M., Andersen, S.R., Bleses, D., Basbøll, H., Højen, A., Madsen, T.O., Ribu, I.S.B. & Christiansen, M.H. (2019). Segmentation of highly vocalic speech via statistical learning: Insights from a cross-linguistic study of Danish, Norwegian, and English. Language Learning, 69, 143–176.

Trecca, F., Tylén, K., Fusaroli, R., Johansson, C. & Christiansen, M.H. (2019). Top-down information is more important in noisy situations: Exploring the role of pragmatic, semantic, and syntactic information in language processing. In A. Goel, C. Seifert & C. Freksa (Eds.), Proceedings of the 41st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 2988-2994). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.

Weber, K., Christiansen, M.H., Indefrey, P. & Hagoort, P. (2019). Primed from the start: Syntactic priming during the first days of language learning. Language Learning, 69, 198–221.

Chater, N. & Christiansen, M.H. (2018). Language acquisition as skill learning. Current Opinion in Behavioural Sciences, 21, 205-208.

Contreras Kallens, P., Dale, R. & Christiansen, M.H. (2018). Linguistic diversity and individual variation: Comment on “Rethinking foundations of language from a multidisciplinary perspective” by T. Gong et al.. Physics of Life Reviews, 26-27, 164-166.

Frank, S.L. & Christiansen, M.H. (2018). Hierarchical and sequential processing of language. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 33, 1213-1218.

Heimbauer, L.A., Conway, C.M., Christiansen, M.H., Beran, M.J. & Owren, M.J. (2018). Visual Artificial grammar learning by rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta): Exploring the role of grammar complexity and sequence length. Animal Cognition, 21, 267-284.

Isbilen, E.S., Frost, R.L.A, Monaghan, P. & Christiansen, M.H. (2018). Bridging artificial and natural language learning: Comparing processing- and reflection-based measures of learning. In T.T. Rogers, M. Rau, X. Zhu, & C. W. Kalish (Eds.), Proceedings of the 40th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1856-1861). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.

Kidd, E., Donelley, S. & Christiansen, M.H. (2018). Individual differences in language acquisition and processing. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 22, 154-169.

Milne, A. E., Wilson, B. & Christiansen, M.H. (2018). Structured sequence learning across sensory modalities in humans and nonhuman primates. Current Opinion in Behavioural Sciences, 21, 39-48.

Poletiek, F., Conway, C.M., Ellefson, M.R., Lai, J., Bocanegra, B.R. & Christiansen, M.H. (2018. Under what conditions can recursion be learned? Effects of starting small in artificial grammar learning of recursive structure. Cognitive Science, 42, 2855-2889.

Reali, F., Chater, N. & Christiansen, M.H. (2018). Simpler grammar, larger vocabulary: How population size affects language. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 285, 20172586.

Trecca, F., Bleses, D., Madsen, T.O. & Christiansen, M.H. (2018). Does sound structure affect word learning? An eye-tracking study of Danish learning toddlers. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 167, 180-203.

Armstrong, B.C., Frost, R. & Christiansen, M.H. (2017). The long road of statistical learning research: Past, present and future. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 372, 20160047.

Arnon, I. & Christiansen, M.H. (2017). The role of multiword building blocks in explaining L1-L2 differences. Topics in Cognitive Science, 9, 621-636.

Arnon, I., McCauley, S.M. & Christiansen, M.H. (2017). Digging up the building blocks of language: Age-of-acquisition effects for multiword phrases. Journal of Memory and Language, 92, 12(1): e0168532.

Christiansen, M.H. & Arnon, I. (2017). More than words: the role of multiword sequences in language learning and use. Topics in Cognitive Science, 9, 542-551.

Christiansen, M.H. & Chater, N. (2017). Towards an integrated science of language. Nature Human Behaviour, 1, 0163.

Cornish, H., Dale, R., Kirby, S. & Christiansen, M.H. (2017). Sequence memory constraints give rise to language-like structure through iterated learning. PLoS ONE 265-280.

Farmer, T.A., Fine, A.B., Misyak, J.B. & Christiansen, M.H. (2017). The inter-relationship between reading span task performance, linguistic experience, and the processing of unexpected syntactic events. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 70, 413-433.

Fitneva, S.A. & Christiansen, M.H. (2017) Developmental changes in cross-situational word learning: The inverse effect of initial accuracy. Cognitive Science, 41 (Suppl.), 141-161.

Fusaroli, R., Tylén, K., Garly, K., Steensig, J., Christiansen, M.H. & Dingemanse, M. (2017). Measures and mechanisms of common ground: backchannels, conversational repair, and interactive alignment in free and task-oriented social interactions. In G. Gunzelmann, A. Howes, T. Tenbrink, & E.J. Davelaar (Eds.), Proceedings of the 39th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 2055-2060). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.

Isbilen, E.S., McCauley, S.M., Kidd, E. & Christiansen, M.H. (2017). Testing statistical learning implicitly: A novel chunk-based measure of statistical learning. In G. Gunzelmann, A. Howes, T. Tenbrink, & E.J. Davelaar (Eds.), Proceedings of the 39th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 564-569). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.

McCauley, S.M., Isbilen, E.S. & Christiansen, M.H. (2017). Chunking ability shapes sentence processing at multiple levels of abstraction. In G. Gunzelmann, A. Howes, T. Tenbrink, & E.J. Davelaar (Eds.), Proceedings of the 39th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 2681-2686). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.

McCauley, S.M. & Christiansen, M.H. (2017). Computational investigations of multiword chunks in language learning. Topics in Cognitive Science, 9, 637-652.

Siegelman, N., Bogaerts, L., Christiansen, M.H. & Frost, R. (2017). Towards a theory of individual differences in statistical learning. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 372, 20160059.

Blasi, D. E., Wichmann, S., Hammarström, H., Stadler, P. F. & Christiansen, M.H. (2016). Sound-meaning association biases evidenced across thousands of languages. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 113, 10818-10823.

Chater, N. & Christiansen, M.H. (2016). Squeezing through the Now-or-Never bottleneck: Reconnecting language processing, acquisition, change and structure. Behavioral & Brain Sciences, 39, e62 [response to commentaries]

Chater, N., McCauley, S.M. & Christiansen, M.H. (2016). Language as skill: Intertwining comprehension and production. Journal of Memory and Language, 89, 244-254.

Christiansen, M.H. (2016). Language intertwined across multiple timescales: Processing, acquisition and evolution. In N. J. Enfield (Ed.), Dependencies in language (pp. 57-66). Berlin: Language Science Press.

Christiansen, M.H. & Chater, N. (2016). The Now-or-Never bottleneck: A fundamental constraint on language. Behavioral & Brain Sciences, 39, e62 [target article]

Christiansen, M.H. & Monaghan, P. (2016). Division of labor in vocabulary structure: Insights from corpus analyses. Topics in Cognitive Science, 8, 610–624.

Dale, R., Fusaroli, R., Tylén, K., Rzaszek-Leonardi, J. & Christiansen, M.H. (2016). Exploring mechanisms for interaction in a connectionist framework. In A. Papafragou, D. Grodner, D. Mirman, & J.C. Trueswell (Eds.), Proceedings of the 38th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 901-906). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.

Dediu, D. & Christiansen, M.H. (2016). Language evolution: Constraints and opportunities from modern genetics. Topics in Cognitive Science, 8, 361–370.

Frost, R.L.A., Monaghan, P. & Christiansen, M.H. (2016). Using statistics to learn words and grammatical categories: How high frequency words assist language acquisition. In A. Papafragou, D. Grodner, D. Mirman, & J.C. Trueswell (Eds.), Proceedings of the 38th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 81-86). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.

Grouchy, P.E., D’Eleuterio, G.M.T, Christiansen, M.H. & Lipson, H. (2016). On the evolutionary origin of symbolic communication. Nature Scientific Reports, 6, 34615.

Jost, E., Brennan, N.P., Peck, K.K., Holodny, A.I. & Christiansen, M.H. (2016). Making it right: Can the right-hemisphere compensate for language function in patients with left-frontal brain tumors? In A. Papafragou, D. Grodner, D. Mirman, & J.C. Trueswell (Eds.), Proceedings of the 38th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 420-425). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.

Jost, E. & Christiansen, M.H. (2016). Statistical learning as a domain-general mechanism of entrenchment. In H.-J. Schmid (Ed.), Entrenchment, memory and automaticity: The psychology of linguistic knowledge and language learning (pp. 227-244). Boston: APA and Walter de Gruyter.

Mueller, K.L., Murray, J.C., Michaelson, J.J., Christiansen, M.H., Reilly, S. & Tomblin, J.B. (2016). Common genetic variants in FOXP2 are not associated with individual differences in language development.  PLoS ONE 11(4): e0152576.

Vuong, L.C., Meyer, A.S. & Christiansen, M.H. (2016). Concurrent learning of adjacent and nonadjacent dependencies. Language Learning, 66, 8-30.

Weber, K., Christiansen, M.H., Petersson, K., Indefrey, P. & Hagoort, P. (2016). fMRI syntactic and lexical repetition effects reveal the initial stages of learning a new language. Journal of Neuroscience, 36, 6872-6880.

Caldwell-Harris, C., Ladd, R., Dediu, D., Biller, A. & Christiansen, M.H. (2015) Factors influencing sensitivity to lexical tone in an artificial language: Implications for L2 learning. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 37, 335-357.

Christiansen, M.H. & Chater, N. (2015). The language faculty that wasn’t: A usage-based account of natural language recursion. Frontiers in Psychology, 6, 1182. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01182.

Dingemanse, M., Blasi, D., Lupyan, G., Christiansen, M.H. & Monaghan, P. (2015). Arbitrariness, iconicity and systematicity in language.Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 19, 603–615.

Frost, R., Armstrong, B.C., Siegelman, N. & Christiansen, M.H. (2015). Domain generality vs. modality specificity: The paradox of statistical learning. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 19, 117-125.

McCauley, S.M. & Christiansen, M.H. (2015). Individual differences in chunking ability predict on-line sentence processing. In D.C. Noelle & R. Dale (Eds.), Proceedings of the 37th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.

McCauley, S.M., Monaghan, P. & Christiansen, M.H. (2015). Language emergence in development: A computational perspective. In B. MacWhinney & W. O’Grady (Eds.), The handbook of language emergence (pp. 415-436). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell.

Onnis, L., Destrebecqz, A., Christiansen, M.H., Chater, N. & Cleeremans, A. (2015). Implicit learning of non-adjacent dependencies: A graded, associative account. To appear in P. Rebuschat (Ed.), Implicit and explicit learning of languages (pp. 213-245). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Arnon, I. & Christiansen, M.H. (2014). Chunk-based language acquisition. In P. Brooks & V. Kempe (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Language Development (pp. 88-90). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

Christiansen, M.H. (2014). Evolutionary perspectives on language development. In P. Brooks & V. Kempe (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Language Development (pp. 206-209). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

Christiansen, M.H. & Mueller, R.-A. (2014). Cultural recycling of neural substrates during language evolution and development. In M.S. Gazzaniga & G.R. Mangun (Eds.), The Cognitive Neurosciences V (pp. 88-90). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Hsu, H.J., Tomblin, J.B. & Christiansen, M.H. (2014). Impaired statistical learning of non-adjacent dependencies in adolescents with specific language impairment. Frontiers in Psychology, 5:175. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00175.

McCauley, S.M. & Christiansen, M.H. (2014). Acquiring formulaic language: A computational model. Mental Lexicon, 9, 419-436.

McCauley, S.M. & Christiansen, M.H. (2014). Prospects for usage-based computational models of grammatical development: Argument structure and semantic roles. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science, 5, 489-499.

McCauley, S.M. & Christiansen, M.H. (2014). Reappraising lexical specificity in children’s early syntactic combinations. In Proceedings of the 36th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1000-1005). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.

Mitchel, A.D., Christiansen, M.H. & Weiss, D.J. (2014). Multimodal integration in statistical learning: Evidence from the McGurk illusion. Frontiers in Psychology, 5: 407. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00407.

Monaghan, P. & Christiansen, M.H. (2014). Multiple cues in language acquisition. In P. Brooks & V. Kempe (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Language Development (pp. 389-392). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

Monaghan, P., Lupyan, G. & Christiansen, M.H. (2014). The systematicity of the sign: Modelling activation of semantic attributes from nonwords. In Proceedings of the 36th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1024-1029). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.

Monaghan, P., Shillcock, R.C., Christiansen, M.H. & Kirby, S. (2014). How arbitrary is language? Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 369, 20130299.

Reali, F., Chater, N. & Christiansen, M.H. (2014). The paradox of linguistic complexity and community size. In E.A. Cartmill, S. Roberts, H. Lyn & H. Cornish (Eds.), Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on the Evolution of Language. (pp. 270-277) Singapore: World Scientific.

St. Clair, M., Monaghan, P. & Christiansen, M.H. (2014). Acquisition of grammatical categories. In P. Brooks & V. Kempe (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Language Development (pp. 253-255). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

Baronchelli, A., Chater, N., Christiansen, M.H. & Pastor-Satorras, R. (2013). Evolution in a changing environment. PLoS ONE, 8(1): e52742.

Baronchelli, A., Ferrer i Cancho,, R., Pastor-Satorras, R., Chater, N. & Christiansen, M.H. (2013). Networks in cognitive science. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 17, 348-360.

Bentz, C. & Christiansen, M.H. (2013). Linguistic adaptation: The trade-off between case marking and fixed word orders in Germanic and Romance languages. In F. Shi & G. Peng (Eds.), East Flows the Great River: Festschrift in Honor of Prof. William S-Y. Wang on his 80th Birthday (pp. 45-61). Hong Kong: City University of Hong Kong Press.

Christiansen, M.H. (2013). Language has evolved to depend on multiple-cue integration. In R. Botha & M. Everaert (Eds.), The evolutionary emergence of human language. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.

Christiansen, M.H. (2013). Modeling cultural evolution: Language acquisition as multiple-cue integration. In C. Lefebvre, B. Comrie & H. Cohen (Eds.), New Perspectives on the origins of language (pp. 487–504). Amsterdam, the Netherlands: John Benjamins.

Dediu, D., Cysouw, M., Levinson, S.C., Baronchelli, A., Christiansen, M.H., Croft, W., Evans, N., Garrod, S., Gray, R., Kandler, A. & Lieven, E. (2013). Cultural evolution of language. In P.J. Richerson & M.H. Christiansen (Eds.), Cultural evolution: Society, technology, language and religion. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Jolsvai, H., McCauley, S.M. & Christiansen, M.H. (2013). Meaning overrides frequency in idiomatic and compositional multiword chunks. In M. Knauff, M. Pauen, N. Sebanz, & I. Wachsmuth (Eds.), Proceedings of the 35th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, (pp. 692-697). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.

McCauley, S.M. & Christiansen, M.H. (2013). Towards a unified account of comprehension and production in language development. Behavioral and Brain Sciences [commentary].

Richerson, P.J. & Christiansen, M.H. (2013). Introduction. In P.J. Richerson & M.H. Christiansen (Eds.), Cultural evolution: Society, technology, language and religion. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Baronchelli, A., Chater, N., Pastor-Satorras, R. & Christiansen, M.H. (2012). The biological origin of linguistic diversity. PLoS ONE, 7(10): e48029.

Chater, N. & Christiansen, M.H. (2012). A solution to the logical problem of language evolution: Language as an adaptation to the human brain. In M. Tallerman & K. Gibson (Eds.), Oxford Handbook of Language Evolution (pp. 626-639). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.

Christiansen, M.H., Conway, C.M & Onnis, L. (2012). Similar neural correlates for language and sequential learning: Evidence from event-related brain potentials. Language and Cognitive Processes, 27, 231-256. 

de Vries, M.H., Geukes, S., Zwitserlood, P., Petersson, K.M. & Christiansen, M.H. (2012). Processing multiple non-adjacent dependencies: Evidence from sequence learning. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 367, 2065-2076.

Farmer, T.A., Misyak, J.B. & Christiansen, M.H. (2012). Individual differences in sentence processing. In M. Spivey, M. Joannisse, & K. McRae (Eds), Cambridge Handbook of Psycholinguistics. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

Frank, S.L., Bod, R. & Christiansen, M.H. (2012). How hierarchical is language use? Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 297, 4522-4531.

Heimbauer, L.A., Conway, C.M., Christiansen, M.H., Beran, M.J. & Owren, M.J. (2012). A Serial Reaction Time (SRT) task with symmetrical joystick responding for nonhuman primates. Behavior Research Methods, 44, 733–741.

Misyak, J.B. & Christiansen, M.H. (2012). Statistical learning and language: An individual differences study. Language Learning, 62, 302-331.

Misyak, J.B., Goldstein, M.H. & Christiansen, M.H. (2012). Statistical-sequential learning in development. In P. Rebuschat & J. Williams (Eds.), Statistical learning and language acquisition (pp. 13-54). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

Monaghan, P., Christiansen, M.H., Farmer, T.A. & Fitneva, S.A. (2012). Measures of phonological typicality: Robust coherence and psychological validity. In G. Libben, G. Jarema & C. Westbury (Eds.), Methodological and analytic frontiers in lexical research (pp. 13-31). Amsterdam, The Netherlands: John Benjamins.

Van den Bos, E., Christiansen, M.H. & Misyak, J.B. (2012). Statistical learning of probabilistic nonadjacent dependencies by multiple-cue integration. Journal of Memory and Language, 67, 507-520.

Winter, B. & Christiansen, M.H. (2012). Robustness as a design feature of speech communication. In Scott-Phillips, T.C., Tamariz, M., Cartmill, E.A., & Hurford, J.R (Eds.), Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on the Evolution of Language (pp. 384-391). New Jersey: World Scientific.

Christiansen, M.H. (2011). Connectionism and grammar. In P. Hogan (Ed.), The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the Language Sciences (pp. 202-203). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

Christiansen, M.H., Reali, F. & Chater, N. (2011). Biological adaptations for functional features of language in the face of cultural evolution. Human Biology, 83, 247-259.

de Vries, M.H., Christiansen, M.H. & Petersson, K.M. (2011). Learning recursion: Multiple nested and crossed dependencies. Biolinguistics, 5, 10-35.

Emberson, L.L., Conway, C.M. & Christiansen, M.H. (2011).  Timing is everything: Changes presentation timing have opposite effects on auditory and visual implicit statistical learning.  Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 64, 1021-1040.

Farmer, T.A., Monaghan, P., Misyak, J.B. & Christiansen, M.H. (2011). Phonological typicality influences sentence processing in predictive contexts: A reply to Staub et al. (2009). Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory & Cognition, 37, 1318-1325.

Finley, S. & Christiansen, M.H. (2011). Multimodal transfer of repetition patterns in artificial grammar learning. In L. Carlson, C. Hölscher, & T. Shipley (Eds.), Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 330-335). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.

Fitneva, S.A. & Christiansen, M.H. (2011). Looking in the wrong direction correlates with more accurate word learning. Cognitive Science, 35, 367-380.

Fitz, H., Chang, F. & Christiansen, M.H. (2011). A connectionist account of the acquisition and processing of relative clauses. In E. Kidd (Ed.), The Acquisition of relative clauses: Processing, typology and function (TILAR Series) (pp. 39-60). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

McCauley, S.M. & Christiansen, M.H. (2011). Learning simple statistics for language comprehension and production: The CAPPUCCINO model. In L. Carlson, C. Hölscher, & T. Shipley (Eds.), Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1619-1624). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.

Misyak, J.B. & Christiansen, M.H. (2011). Genetic variation and individual differences in language. To appear in E.V. Clark & I. Arnon (Eds.), Experience, variation and generalization. Learning a first language (TILAR Series) (pp. 223-238). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Monaghan, P., Christiansen, M.H. & Fitneva, S.A. (2011). The arbitrariness of the sign: Learning advantages from the structure of the vocabulary. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 140, 325-347.

Vuong, L.C., Meyer, A.S. & Christiansen, M.H. (2011). Simultaneous online tracking of adjacent and non-adjacent dependencies in statistical learning. In L. Carlson, C. Hölscher, & T. Shipley (Eds.), Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 964-969). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.

Wheeler, B., Searcy, W.A., Christiansen, M.H., Corballis, M.C., Fischer, J., Grüter, C., Margoliash, D., Owren, M.J., Price, T., Seyfarth, R. & Wild, M. (2011). Communication. In R. Menzel & J. Fischer (Eds.), Animal thinking: Contemporary issues in comparative cognition. Strüngmann Forum Reports (pp. 187-205). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Bentz, C. & Christiansen, M.H. (2010). Linguistic adaptation at work? The change of word order and case system from Latin to the Romance Languages. In A. Smith, M. Schouwstra, B. de Boer & K. Smith (Eds.), Proceedings of the Eight International Conference on the Evolution of Language (pp. 26-33). London: World Scientific Publishing.

Chater, N. & Christiansen, M.H. (2010). Language evolution as cultural evolution: How language is shaped by the brain. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science, 1, 623-628.

Chater, N. & Christiansen, M.H. (2010). Language acquisition meets language evolution. Cognitive Science, 34, 1131-1157.

Christiansen, M.H., Dale, R. & Reali, F. (2010). Connectionist explorations of multiple-cue integration in syntax acquisition. In S.P. Johnson (Ed.), Neoconstructivism: The new science of cognitive development (pp. 87-108). New York: Oxford University Press.

Christiansen, M.H., Kelly, M.L., Shillcock, R.C & Greenfield, K. (2010). Impaired artificial grammar learning in agrammatism. Cognition, 116, 382–393.

Misyak, J.B. & Christiansen, M.H. (2010). When ‘more’ in statistical learning means ‘less’ in language: Individual differences in predictive processing of adjacent dependencies. In R. Catrambone & S. Ohlsson (Eds.), Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Cognitive Science Society Conference (pp. 2686- 2691). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.

Misyak, J.B., Christiansen, M.H. & Tomblin, J.B. (2010). On-line individual differences in statistical learning predict language processing. Frontiers in Psychology. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2010.00031.

Misyak, J.B., Christiansen, M.H. & Tomblin, J.B. (2010). Sequential expectations: The role of prediction-based learning in language. Topics in Cognitive Science, 2, 138-153.

Monaghan, P. & Christiansen, M.H. (2010). Words in puddles of sound: Modelling psycholinguistic effects in speech segmentation. Journal of Child Language, 37, 545-564.

Monaghan, P., Christiansen, M.H., Farmer, T.A. & Fitneva, S.A. (2010). Measures of phonological typicality: Robust coherence and psychological validity. The Mental Lexicon, 5, 281-299.

St. Clair, M.C., Monaghan, P. & Christiansen, M.H. (2010). Learning grammatical categories from distributional cues: Flexible frames for language acquisition. Cognition, 116, 341–360.

Beckner, C., Blythe, R., Bybee, J., Christiansen, M.H., Croft, W., Ellis, N., Holland, J., Ke, J., Larsen-Freeman, D. & Schoenemann, T. (2009). Language is a complex adaptive system. Language Learning, 59 (Suppl. 1), 1-27. [A Spanish translation, La lengua es un sistema adaptativo complejo, is available courtesy of Francisco Moreno Fernández]

Chater, N., Reali, F. & Christiansen, M.H. (2009). Restrictions on biological adaptation in language evolution. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 106, 1015-1020.

Christiansen, M.H. & Chater, N. (2009). The myth of language universals and the myth of universal grammar. Behavioral & Brain Sciences, 32, 452-453.

Christiansen, M.H., Chater, N. & Reali, F (2009). The biological and cultural foundations of language. Communicative & Integrative Biology, 2, 221-222.

Christiansen, M.H., Collins, C. Collins & Edelman, S. (2009). Language universals: A collaborative project for the language sciences. In M.H. Christiansen, C. Collins & S. Edelman (Eds.), Language universals (pp. 3-16). New York: Oxford University Press.

Christiansen, M.H. & Kirby, S. (2009). Language evolution. In L.R. Squire (Ed.), New encyclopedia of neuroscience, Vol. 5 (pp. 321-327). Oxford, U.K.: Elsevier.

Christiansen, M.H. & MacDonald, M.C. (2009). A usage-based approach to recursion in sentence processing. Language Learning, 59 (Suppl. 1), 126-161.

Christiansen, M.H., Onnis, L. & Hockema, S.A. (2009). The secret is in the sound: From unsegmented speech to lexical categories. Developmental Science, 12, 388-395.

Conway, C.M. & Christiansen, M.H. (2009). Seeing and hearing in space and time: Effects of modality and presentation rate on implicit statistical learning. European Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 21, 561-580.

Fitneva, S.A., Christiansen, M.H. & Monaghan, P. (2009). From sound to syntax: Phonological constraints on children’s lexical categorization of new words. Journal of Child Language, 36, 967-997.

Hruschka, D., Christiansen, M.H., Blythe, R.A., Croft, W., Heggarty, P., Mufwene, S.S., Pierrehumbert, J.H. & Poplack, S. (2009). Building social cognitive models of language change. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 13, 464-469.

Jäger, H., Baronchelli, A., Briscoe, E., Christiansen, M.H., Griffiths, T., Jäger, G., Kirby, S., Komarova, N., Richerson, P.J., Steels, L. & Triesch, J. (2009). What can mathematical, computational and robotic models tell us about the origins of syntax? In D. Bickerton & E. Szathmáry (Eds.), Biological foundations and origin of syntax. Strüngmann Forum Reports, Vol. 3 (pp. 385-410). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Kirby, S., Christiansen, M.H. & Chater, N. (2009). Syntax as an adaptation to the learner. In D. Bickerton & E. Szathmáry (Eds.), Biological foundations and origin of syntax. Strüngmann Forum Reports, Vol. 3 (pp. 325-343). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Misyak, J.B., Christiansen, M.H. & Tomblin, J.B. (2009). Statistical learning of nonadjacencies predicts on-line processing of long-distance dependencies in natural language. In N. Taatgen, H. van Rijn, J. Nerbonne & L. Schomaker (Eds.), Proceedings of the 31st Annual Cognitive Science Society Conference (pp. 177-182). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.

Onnis, L., Christiansen, M.H. & Chater, N (2009). Connectionist models of language processing. In L.R. Squire (Ed.), New encyclopedia of neuroscience, Vol. 3 (pp. 83-90). Oxford, U.K.: Elsevier.

Reali, F. & Christiansen, M.H. (2009). On the necessity of an interdisciplinary approach to language universals. In M.H. Christiansen, C. Collins & S. Edelman (Eds.), Language universals (pp. 266-277). New York: Oxford University Press.

Reali, F. & Christiansen, M.H. (2009). Sequential learning and the interaction between biological and linguistic adaptation in language evolution. Interaction Studies, 10, 5-30.

Tomblin, J.B. & Christiansen, M.H. (2009). Explaining developmental communication disorders. In R. Paul & P. Flipsen (Eds.), Speech sound disorders in children. In honor of Lawrence D. Shriberg (pp. 35-49). San Diego, CA: Plural Publishing.

Wells, J., Christiansen, M.H., Race, D.S., Acheson, D. & MacDonald, M.C. (2009). Experience and sentence processing: Statistical learning and relative clause comprehension. Cognitive Psychology, 58, 250-271.

Chater, N. & Christiansen, M.H. (2008). Computational models in psycholinguistics. In R. Sun (Ed.), Cambridge Handbook of Computational Cognitive Modeling (pp. 477-504). New York: Cambridge University Press.

Christiansen, M.H. & Chater, N. (2008). Language as shaped by the brain. Behavioral & Brain Sciences, 31, 489-558. [target article with 28 peer commentaries and authors’ response]

Monaghan, P. & Christiansen, M.H. (2008). Integration of multiple probabilistic cues in syntax acquisition. In H. Behrens (Ed.), Trends in corpus research: Finding structure in data (TILAR Series) (pp. 139-163). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Onnis, L. & Christiansen, M.H. (2008). Lexical categories at the edge of the word. Cognitive Science, 32, 184-221.

Onnis, L., Farmer, T.A., Baroni, M., Christiansen, M.H. & Spivey, M. (2008). Generalizable distributional regularities aid fluent language processing: The case of semantic valence tendencies. Italian Journal of Linguistics, 20, 125-152.

Chater, N. & Christiansen, M.H. (2007). Two views of simplicity in linguistic theory: Which connects better with cognitive science? Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 11, 324-326.

Christiansen, M.H., Conway, C.M. & Onnis, L. (2007). Overlapping neural responses to structural incongruencies in language and statistical learning point to similar underlying mechanisms. In D. S. McNamara & J. G. Trafton (Eds.), Proceedings of the 29th Annual Cognitive Science Society Conference (pp. 173-178). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.

Conway, C.M., Goldstone, R.L. & Christiansen, M.H. (2007). Spatial constraints on visual statistical learning of multi-element scenes. In D. S. McNamara & J. G. Trafton (Eds.), Proceedings of the 29th Annual Cognitive Science Society Conference (pp. 185-190). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.

Misyak, J.B. & Christiansen, M.H. (2007). Extending statistical learning farther and further: Long-distance dependencies, and individual differences in statistical learning and language. In D. S.McNamara & J. G. Trafton (Eds.), Proceedings of the 29th Annual Cognitive Science Society Conference (pp. 1307-1312). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.

Monaghan, P., Christiansen, M.H. & Chater, N. (2007). The Phonological-Distributional Coherence Hypothesis: Cross-linguistic evidence in language acquisition. Cognitive Psychology, 55, 259-305.

Reali, F. & Christiansen, M.H. (2007). Processing of relative clauses is made easier by frequency of occurrence. Journal of Memory and Language, 57, 1-23.

Reali, F. & Christiansen, M.H. (2007). Word-chunk frequencies affect the processing of pronominal object-relative clauses. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 60, 161-170.

Christiansen, M.H., Hockema, S.A. & Onnis, L. (2006). Using phoneme distributions to discover words and lexical categories in unsegmented speech. In Proceedings of the 28th Annual Cognitive Science Society Conference (pp. 172-177). Mahwah, NJ:
Lawrence Erlbaum.

Christiansen, M.H. & Monaghan, P. (2006). Discovering verbs through multiple-cue integration. In K. Hirsh-Pasek & R.M. Golinkoff (Eds.), Action meets words: How children learn verbs (pp. 88-107). New York: Oxford University Press.

Christiansen, M.H., Reali, F. & Chater, N. (2006). The Baldwin effect works for functional, but not arbitrary, features of language. In A. Cangelosi, A. Smith & K. Smith (Eds.), Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on the Evolution of Language (pp. 27-34). London: World Scientific Publishing.

Conway, C.M. & Christiansen, M.H. (2006). Statistical learning within and between modalities: Pitting abstract against stimulus specific representations. Psychological Science, 17, 905-912.

Farmer, T.A., Christiansen, M.H. & Monaghan, P. (2006). Phonological typicality influences on-line sentence comprehension. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 103, 12203-12208.

Monaghan, P. & Christiansen, M.H. (2006). Why form-meaning mappings are not entirely arbitrary in language. In Proceedings of the 28th Annual Cognitive Science Society Conference (pp. 1838-1843). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Onnis, L., Christiansen, M.H. & Chater, N (2006). Human language processing: Connectionist models. In K. Brown (Ed.), Encyclopedia of language and linguistics (pp. 401-409). Oxford, U.K.: Elsevier Publishers.

Snyder, J.S., Hannon, E.E., Large, E.W. & Christiansen, M.H. (2006). Synchronization and continuation tapping to complex meters. Music Perception, 24, 135-146.

Sternberg, D.A. & Christiansen, M.H. (2006). The implications of bilingualism and multilingualism on potential evolved language mechanisms. In A. Cangelosi, A. Smith & K. Smith (Eds.), Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on the Evolution of Language (pp. 333-340). London: World Scientific Publishing.

Christiansen, M.H. (2005). On the relation between language and (mimetic) culture. In S.L. Hurley & N. Chater (Eds.), Perspectives on imitation: From cognitive neuroscience to social science (pp. 391-396). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Christiansen, M.H., Conway, C.M. & Curtin, S. (2005). Multiple-cue integration in language acquisition: A connectionist model of speech segmentation and rule-like behavior. In J.W. Minett & W.S.-Y. Wang (Eds.), Language acquisition, change and emergence: Essay in evolutionary linguistics (pp. 205-249). Hong Kong: City University of Hong Kong Press.

Christiansen, M.H. & Curtin, S. (2005). Integrating multiple cues in language acquisition: A computational study of early infant speech segmentation. In G. Houghton (Ed.), Connectionist models in cognitive psychology (pp. 347-372). Hove, U.K.: Psychology Press.

Conway, C. & Christiansen, M.H. (2005). Modality constrained statistical learning of tactile, visual, and auditory sequences. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory & Cognition, 31, 24-39.

Conway, C.M. & Christiansen, M.H. (2005). Statistical learning within and across modalities: Abstract versus stimulus-specific representations. In Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 488-493). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Curtin, S., Mintz, T.H. & Christiansen, M.H. (2005). Stress changes the representational landscape: Evidence from word segmentation. Cognition, 96, 233-262.

Farmer, T.A., Christiansen, M.H. & Kemtes, K.A. (2005). Sentence processing in context: The impact of experience on individual differences. In Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 642-647). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Monaghan, P., Chater, N. & Christiansen, M.H. (2005). The differential role of phonological and distributional cues in grammatical categorisation. Cognition, 96, 143-182.

Onnis, L. & Christiansen, M.H. (2005). New beginnings and happy endings: Psychological plausibility in computational models of language acquisition. In Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1678-1683). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Reali, F., & Christiansen, M.H. (2005). Uncovering the richness of the stimulus: Structure dependence and indirect statistical evidence. Cognitive Science, 29, 1007-1028.

Reali, F., Dale, R. & Christiansen, M.H. (2005). Colorless green ideas sleep furiously revisited: A statistical perspective. In Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1821-1826). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Christiansen, M.H. & Dale, R. (2004). The role of learning and development in the evolution of language. A connectionist perspective. In Kimbrough Oller, D., U. Griebel & K. Plunkett (Eds.), The Evolution of Communication Systems: A Comparative Approach. The Vienna Series in Theoretical Biology (pp. 90-109). Cambridge MA: MIT Press.

Dale, R. & Christiansen, M.H. (2004). Active and passive statistical learning: Exploring the role of feedback in artificial grammar learning and language. In Proceedings of the 26th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 262-267). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Monaghan, P. & Christiansen, M.H. (2004). What distributional information is useful and usable for language acquisition? In Proceedings of the 26th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 963-968). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Onnis, L., Monaghan, P., Christiansen, M.H. & Chater, N. (2004). Variability is the spice of learning, and a crucial ingredient for detecting and generalizing in nonadjacent dependencies. In Proceedings of the 26th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1047-1052). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Reali, F. & Christiansen, M.H. (2004).Structure dependence in language acquisition: Uncovering the richness of the stimulus. In Proceedings of the 26th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1131-1136). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Chater, N. & Christiansen, M.H. (2003). Speech processing: Psycholinguistics. In M.A. Arbib (Ed.), The handbook of brain theory and neural networks (2^nd ed., pp. 1068-1071). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Christiansen, M.H. & Chater, N. (2003). Constituency and recursion in language. In M.A. Arbib (Ed.), The handbook of brain theory and neural networks (2^nd ed., pp. 267-271). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Christiansen, M.H., Conway, C.M. & Ellefson, M.R. (2003). Raising the bar for connectionist modeling of cognitive developmental disorders. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 25, 752-753.

Christiansen, M.H. & Dale, R. (2003). Language evolution and change. In M.A. Arbib (Ed.), The handbook of brain theory and neural networks (2^nd ed., pp. 604-606). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Christiansen, M.H. & Kirby, S. (2003). Language evolution: Consensus and controversies. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 7, 300-307.  

Christiansen, M.H. & Kirby, S. (2003). Language evolution: The hardest problem in science? In M.H. Christiansen & Kirby, S. (Eds.), Language evolution (pp. 1-15). Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press.

Conway, C.M., Ellefson, M.R. & Christiansen, M.H. (2003). When less is less and when less is more: Starting small with staged input. In Proceedings of the 25th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 270-275). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Dale, R. & Christiansen, M.H. (2003). Review of The algebraic mind: Integrating connectionism and cognitive science by G.F. Marcus. European Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 15, 478-480.

Edelman, S. & Christiansen, M.H. (2003). How seriously should we take Minimalist syntax? Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 7, 60-61.

Kirby, S. & Christiansen, M.H. (2003). From language learning to language evolution. In M.H. Christiansen & Kirby, S. (Eds.), Language evolution (pp. 272-294). Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press.

Monaghan, P., Chater, N. & Christiansen, M.H. (2003). Inequality between the classes: Phonological and distributional typicality as predictors of lexical processing. In Proceedings of the 25th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pp. 810-815). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Onnis, L. Christiansen, M., Chater, N. & Gomez, R. (2003) Reduction of uncertainty in human sequential learning: Evidence from artificial language learning. Proceedings of The 25th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pp. 886-891). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Reali, F., Christiansen, M.H. & Monaghan, P. (2003). Phonological and distributional cues in syntax acquisition: Scaling up the connectionist approach to multiple-cue integration. In Proceedings of the 25th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 970-975). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Christiansen, M.H., Dale, R., Ellefson, M.R., & Conway, C.M. (2002). The role of sequential learning in language evolution: Computational and experimental studies. In A. Cangelosi & D. Parisi (Eds.) Simulating the evolution of language (pp.165-187). London: Springer-Verlag.  

Christiansen, M.H. & Ellefson, M.R. (2002). Linguistic adaptation without linguistic constraints: The role of sequential learning in language evolution. In A. Wray (Ed.), Transitions to language (pp. 335-358). Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press.  

Conway, C. & Christiansen, M.H. (2002). Sequential learning through touch, vision and audition. In Proceedings of the 24th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 220-225). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Lupyan, G. & Christiansen, M.H. (2002). Case, word order, and language learnability: Insights from connectionist modeling. In Proceedings of the 24th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 596-601). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

MacDonald, M.C. & Christiansen, M.H. (2002). Reassessing working memory: A comment on Just & Carpenter (1992) and Waters & Caplan (1996). Psychological Review, 109, 35-54.

Christiansen, M.H. & Chater, N. (2001). Connectionist psycholinguistics: Capturing the empirical data. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 5, 82-88.

Christiansen, M.H. & Chater, N. (2001). Connectionist psycholinguistics in perspective. In M.H. Christiansen & N. Chater (Eds.), Connectionist psycholinguistics (pp.19-75). Westport, CT: Ablex.

Christiansen, M.H. & Chater, N. (2001). Connectionist psycholinguistics: The very idea. In M.H. Christiansen & N. Chater (Eds.), Connectionist psycholinguistics (pp.1-15). Westport, CT: Ablex.

Christiansen, M.H. & Chater, N. (2001). Finite models of infinite language: A connectionist approach to recursion. In M.H. Christiansen & N. Chater (Eds.), Connectionist psycholinguistics (pp. 138-176). Westport, CT: Ablex.

Christiansen, M.H. & Dale, R. (2001). Integrating distributional, prosodic and phonological information in a connectionist model of language acquisition. In Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 220-225). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Conway, C.M., & Christiansen, M.H. (2001). Sequential learning in non-human primates. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 5, 539-546.

Christiansen, M.H. (2000). Using artificial language learning to study language evolution: Exploring the emergence of word universals. J. L. Dessalles & L. Ghadakpour (Eds.), The Evolution of Language: 3rd International Conference (pp. 45-48). Paris, France: Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications.

Christiansen, M.H., Conway, C.M. & Curtin, S. (2000). A connectionist single-mechanism account of rule-like behavior in infancy. In The Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 83-88). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Ellefson, M.R. & Christiansen, M.H. (2000). The evolution of subjacency without universal grammar: Evidence from artificial language learning. In J. L. Dessalles & L. Ghadakpour (Eds.), The Evolution of Language: 3rd International Conference (pp. 98-101). Paris, France: Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications.

Ellefson, M.R. & Christiansen, M.H. (2000). Subjacency constraints without universal grammar: Evidence from artificial language learning and connectionist modeling. In The Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 645-650). Mahwah,NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Chater, N. & Christiansen, M.H. (1999). Connectionism and natural language processing. In S. Garrod & M. Pickering (Eds.), Language processing (pp. 233-279). Hove, U.K.: Psychology Press.

Christiansen, M.H. & Chater, N. (1999). Connectionist natural language processing: The state of the art. Cognitive Science, 23, 417-437.

Christiansen, M.H. & Chater, N. (1999). Toward a connectionist model of recursion in human linguistic performance. Cognitive Science, 23, 157-205.

Christiansen, M.H., Chater, N. & Seidenberg, M.S. (Eds.) (1999). Connectionist models of human language processing: Progress and prospects. Special issue of Cognitive Science, 23 (4), 415-634.

Christiansen, M.H. & Curtin, S.L. (1999). Transfer of learning: Rule acquisition or statistical learning? Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 3, 289-290.

Christiansen, M.H. & Curtin, S.L. (1999). The power of statistical learning: No need for algebraic rules. In The Proceedings of the 21st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 114-119). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Christiansen, M.H. & MacDonald, M.C.(1999). Fractionated working memory: Even in pebbles, it’s still a soup stone. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 22, 97-98.

Christiansen, M.H. (1998). Improving learning and generalization in neural networks through the acquisition of multiple related functions. In J.A. Bullinaria, D.G. Glasspool & G. Houghton (Eds.), Proceedings of the Fourth Neural Computation and Psychology Workshop: Connectionist Representations (pp. 58-70). London: Springer-Verlag.

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