Jennifer Culbertson

According to our database, Jennifer Culbertson authored at least 50 papers between 2012 and 2026.

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2026

Evaluating the relationship between regularity and learnability in recursive numeral systems using Reinforcement Learning.

Andrea Silvi, Ponrawee Prasertsom, Jennifer Culbertson, Devdatt P. Dubhashi, Moa Johansson, Kenny Smith

CoRR, February, 2026

Recursive numeral systems are highly regular and easy to process.

Ponrawee Prasertsom, Andrea Silvi, Jennifer Culbertson, Devdatt P. Dubhashi, Moa Johansson, Kenny Smith

Proceedings of the 19th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2026

2025

With or Without a System: How Category-Specific and System-Wide Cognitive Biases Shape Word Order.

Annie Holtz, Simon Kirby, Jennifer Culbertson

Cogn. Sci., 2025

Thinking through syntax: Expanding the scope of "thinking for speaking".

Yuyan Xue, Jennifer Culbertson

Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2025

Developmental evidence for sensitivity to hierarchical structure in the noun phrase.

Shira Tal, Benedek Bartha, Jennifer Culbertson

Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2025

Testing counterintuitive predictions about cost-based inferences in learning from the Rational Speech Act model.

Ponrawee Prasertsom, Kenny Smith, Jennifer Culbertson

Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2025

Can input statistics over-ride a prior bias in morpheme ordering? A test case with gender and number.

Chunan Li, Carmen Saldana, Jennifer Culbertson

Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2025

Iterated language learning is shaped by a drive for optimizing lossy compression.

Nathaniel Imel, Jennifer Culbertson, Simon Kirby, Noga Zaslavsky

Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2025

Neuro-identity mixing impacts linguistic accommodation and regularisation: evidence from autistic and allistic interactions.

Lauren E. F. Fletcher, Jennifer Culbertson, Hugh Rabagliati

Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2025

Native Language Suffixation Patterns and Perception of Sequences: A Case of Cantonese Speakers.

Shuting Chen, Itamar Kastner, Jennifer Culbertson

Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2025

2024

Autistic Traits, Communicative Efficiency, and Social Biases Shape Language Learning in Autistic and Allistic Learners.

Lauren E. F. Fletcher, Hugh Rabagliati, Jennifer Culbertson

Cogn. Sci., November, 2024

Predictability and Variation in Language Are Differentially Affected by Learning and Production.

Aislinn Keogh, Simon Kirby, Jennifer Culbertson

Cogn. Sci., April, 2024

Evaluating the Relative Importance of Wordhood Cues Using Statistical Learning.

Elizabeth Pankratz, Simon Kirby, Jennifer Culbertson

Cogn. Sci., March, 2024

Agreement marking can benefit child learners.

Shira Tal, Kenny Smith, Jennifer Culbertson

Proceedings of the 46th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2024

What can L1 speakers tell us about killing hope? A Novel Behavioral Measure for Identifying Collocations.

Sydelle de Souza, Francis Mollica, Jennifer Culbertson

Proceedings of the 46th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2024

Domain-general categorisation principles explain the prevalence of animacy and absence of colour in noun classification systems.

Ponrawee Prasertsom, Kenny Smith, Jennifer Culbertson

Proceedings of the 46th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2024

The key property of frequency distributions that facilitates linguistic rule generalisation is long-tailedness.

Elizabeth Pankratz, Simon Kirby, Jennifer Culbertson

Proceedings of the 46th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2024

Communication and learning pressures result in clustered lexicons.

Aislinn Keogh, Jennifer Culbertson, Simon Kirby

Proceedings of the 46th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2024

2023

Cognitive biases for word order between numeral, classifier and noun.

Fang Wang, Simon Kirby, Jennifer Culbertson

Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2023

Communicative efficiency is present in young children and becomes more adult-like with age.

Shira Tal, Kenny Smith, Inbal Arnon, Jennifer Culbertson

Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2023

Speakers' cognitive representations of gender and number morphology shape cross-linguistic tendencies in morpheme order.

Carmen Saldana, Jennifer Culbertson

Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2023

Evidence for a language-independent conceptual representation of pronominal referents.

Mora Maldonado, Noga Zaslavsky, Jennifer Culbertson

Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2023

Does production facilitate learning morphosyntactic generalisations?

Aislinn Keogh, Elizabeth Pankratz, Simon Kirby, Jennifer Culbertson

Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2023

How communicative efficiency and social biases shape language in autistic and allistic learners.

Lauren E. F. Fletcher, Jennifer Culbertson, Hugh Rabagliati

Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2023

2022

The Impact of Information Structure on the Emergence of Differential Object Marking: An Experimental Study.

Shira Tal, Kenny Smith, Jennifer Culbertson, Eitan Grossman, Inbal Arnon

Cogn. Sci., 2022

Agreement can facilitate learning of noun class systems.

Shira Tal, Kenny Smith, Jennifer Culbertson

Proceedings of the 44th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2022

Trees neural those: RNNs can learn the hierarchical structure of noun phrases.

Yevgen Matusevych, Jennifer Culbertson

Proceedings of the 44th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2022

Learnability and constraints on the semantics of clause-embedding predicates.

Mora Maldonado, Jennifer Culbertson, Wataru Uegaki

Proceedings of the 44th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2022

The Influence of Category-specific and System-wide Preferences on Cross-Linguistic Word Order Patterns.

Annie Holtz, Simon Kirby, Jennifer Culbertson

Proceedings of the 44th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2022

Syntactic harmony arises from a domain-general learning bias.

Jennifer Culbertson, Simon Kirby

Proceedings of the 44th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2022

2021

Investigating the effects of i-complexity and e-complexity on the learnability of morphological systems.

Tamar Johnson, Kexin Gao, Kenny Smith, Hugh Rabagliati, Jennifer Culbertson

J. Lang. Model., 2021

Let's talk (efficiently) about us: Person systems achieve near-optimal compression.

Noga Zaslavsky, Mora Maldonado, Jennifer Culbertson

Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2021

A Cognitive Bias for Cross-Category Word Order Harmony.

Fang Wang, Simon Kirby, Jennifer Culbertson

Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2021

Infinite use of finite means? Evaluating the generalization of center embedding learned from an artificial grammar.

Richard Thomas McCoy, Jennifer Culbertson, Paul Smolensky, Geraldine Legendre

Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2021

2019

Acquiring Agglutinating and Fusional Languages Can Be Similarly Difficult: Evidence from an Adaptive Tracking Study.

Svenja Wagner, Kenny Smith, Jennifer Culbertson

Proceedings of the 41th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2019

Do cross-linguistic patterns of morpheme order reflect a cognitive bias?

Carmen Saldana, Yohei Oseki, Jennifer Culbertson

Proceedings of the 41th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2019

Do learners' word order preferences reflect hierarchical language structure?

Alexander Martin, Klaus Abels, David Adger, Jennifer Culbertson

Proceedings of the 41th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2019

Something about "us": Learning first person pronoun systems.

Mora Maldonado, Jennifer Culbertson

Proceedings of the 41th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2019

Assessing Integrative Complexity as a Measure of Morphological Learning.

Tamar Johnson, Jennifer Culbertson, Hugh Rabagliati, Kenny Smith

Proceedings of the 41th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2019

2018

Do children privilege phonological cues in noun class learning?

Jennifer Culbertson, Hanna Jarvinen, Frances Haggarty, Kenny Smith

Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2018

2017

The influence of word-order harmony on structural priming in artificial languages.

Kenny Smith, Olga Feher, Jennifer Culbertson

Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2017

Silent gesture and noun phrase universals.

Marieke Schouwstra, Simon Kirby, Jennifer Culbertson

Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2017

Is the strength of regularisation behaviour uniform across linguistic levels?

Carmen Saldana, Kenny Smith, Simon Kirby, Jennifer Culbertson

Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2017

The cultural evolution of complex linguistic constructions in artificial sign languages.

Yasamin Motamedi, Marieke Schouwstra, Jennifer Culbertson, Kenny Smith, Simon Kirby

Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2017

Language-users choose short words in predictive contexts in an artificial language task.

Jasmeen Kanwal, Kenny Smith, Jennifer Culbertson, Simon Kirby

Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2017

Harmony in a non-harmonic language: word order learning in French children.

Guillaume Braquet, Jennifer Culbertson

Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2017

2013

Cognitive Biases, Linguistic Universals, and Constraint-Based Grammar Learning.

Jennifer Culbertson, Paul Smolensky, Colin Wilson

Top. Cogn. Sci., 2013

Artificial grammar learning of shape-based noun classification.

Jennifer Culbertson, Colin Wilson

Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2013

2012

Typological Universals as Reflections of Biased Learning: Evidence from Artificial Language Learning.

Jennifer Culbertson

Lang. Linguistics Compass, 2012

A Bayesian Model of Biases in Artificial Language Learning: The Case of a Word-Order Universal.

Jennifer Culbertson, Paul Smolensky

Cogn. Sci., 2012