Stephan C Meylan
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Recent Articles
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Meylan S, Griffiths T
Cogn Sci
. 2024 Jul;
48(7):e13478.
PMID: 38980972
How do cognitive pressures shape the lexicons of natural languages? Here, we reframe George Kingsley Zipf's proposed "law of abbreviation" within a more general framework that relates it to cognitive...
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Meylan S, Foushee R, Wong N, Bergelson E, Levy R
Nat Hum Behav
. 2023 Oct;
7(12):2111-2125.
PMID: 37884678
Children's early speech often bears little resemblance to that of adults, and yet parents and other caregivers are able to interpret that speech and react accordingly. Here we investigate how...
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Zettersten M, Yurovsky D, Xu T, Uner S, Sin Mei Tsui A, Schneider R, et al.
Behav Res Methods
. 2022 Aug;
55(5):2485-2500.
PMID: 36002623
The ability to rapidly recognize words and link them to referents is central to children's early language development. This ability, often called word recognition in the developmental literature, is typically...
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Meylan S, Bergelson E
Annu Rev Linguist
. 2022 Apr;
8:77-99.
PMID: 35481110
Children's linguistic knowledge and the learning mechanisms by which they acquire it grow substantially in infancy and toddlerhood, yet theories of word learning largely fail to incorporate these shifts. Moreover,...
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The Challenges of Large-Scale, Web-Based Language Datasets: Word Length and Predictability Revisited
Meylan S, Griffiths T
Cogn Sci
. 2021 Jun;
45(6):e12983.
PMID: 34170030
Language research has come to rely heavily on large-scale, web-based datasets. These datasets can present significant methodological challenges, requiring researchers to make a number of decisions about how they are...
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Meylan S, Nair S, Griffiths T
Cognition
. 2021 Jan;
210:104553.
PMID: 33482474
Spoken communication occurs in a "noisy channel" characterized by high levels of environmental noise, variability within and between speakers, and lexical and syntactic ambiguity. Given these properties of the received...
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Sanchez A, Meylan S, Braginsky M, MacDonald K, Yurovsky D, Frank M
Behav Res Methods
. 2019 Jan;
51(4):1928-1941.
PMID: 30623390
The Child Language Data Exchange System (CHILDES) has played a critical role in research on child language development, particularly in characterizing the early language learning environment. Access to these data...
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Meylan S, Frank M, Roy B, Levy R
Psychol Sci
. 2017 Jan;
28(2):181-192.
PMID: 28074675
How do children begin to use language to say things they have never heard before? The origins of linguistic productivity have been a subject of heated debate: Whereas generativist accounts...
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Kurumada C, Meylan S, Frank M
Cognition
. 2013 Apr;
127(3):439-53.
PMID: 23558340
Word frequencies in natural language follow a highly skewed Zipfian distribution, but the consequences of this distribution for language acquisition are only beginning to be understood. Typically, learning experiments that...