Kathryn Schuler

PI, Assistant Professor

Katie is the lab’s Primary Investigator. She is an Assistant Professor in the Linguistics Department at the University of Pennsylvania. You can learn more about her from her website or CV.

Lab accomplishments

Papers

• Austin, Schuler, Furlong, & Newport (under review) Learning a language from inconsistent input: Regularization in child and adult learners
• Chen & Schuler (forthcoming) Do Learner's preferences match the typological pattern of Animacy Heirarchy in morphological marking?
• Schuler, Kodner, & Caplan (2020) Abstractions are good for brains and machines: A commentary on Ambridge (2020)
• Fama, Schuler, Newport, & Turkeltaub (under review) Impacts of healthy aging and left hemisphere stroke on statistical language learning
• Culbertson & Schuler (2019) Artificial language learning in children
• Schuler, Reeder, Newport, & Aslin (2017) The effect of Zipfian frequency variations on category formation in adult artificial language learning

Grants

• (2020) University of Pennsylvania Research Recovery

Talks

• Li & Schuler (2021) Acquiring recursive structures through distributional learning
• Kendrick & Schuler (2021) Adults do not regularize unpredictable language variation, even when learning from an unreliable speaker
• Schuler & Chen (2021) Morphosyntactic variation is preserved, not regularized, when an optional form is rare
• Schuler (2020) Forming categories and making generalizations: lessons from child language acquisition
• (CANCELLED) Chen & Schuler (2020) Does Learner's preference match the typological pattern for Animacy Hierarchy in morphological marking?

Posters

• Alberski & Schuler (2021) The role of language context in the acquisition of novel words
• Pophristic & Schuler (2021) The Role of Gender in the Acquisition of the Serbian Case System
• Nam & Schuler (2021) The Influence of Verb Information on Learning Novel Words
• Schuler (2020) Children and adults condition variable rules on social context.

News

• (2017) Katie's daughter Joan is born!
• (2017) The Child Language Lab opens at the University of Pennslylvania