We study how children learn languages. We’re especially interested in why children seem to be better at language learning than adults are. We want to find out whether there is something different about the way children learn or the way their brains are organized that makes language learning come naturally to them.
Publications
2022
Schuler, K.D. & Chen, Y. (in prep) Morphosyntactic variation is preserved, not regularized when an optional form is rare. Glossa Psycholinguistics
Chen, Y. & Schuler, K.D. (in prep) French Variable Ne-omission in Child-Directed Speech and Children’s Early Productions. Language Variation and Change
Li, D. & Schuler. K.D. (in revision) Acquiring recursive structures through distributional learning. Language Acquisition
Schuler, K.D., Yang, C., & Newport, E.L. (in revision) Children form productive rules when it is more computationally efficient. Journal of Memory and Language
Schuler, K.D., Lukens, K., Reeder, P.A., Newport, E.L. & Aslin, R.N. (in revision) Children can use distributional cues to acquire grammatical categories. Cognition
2021
Fama, M.E., Schuler, K.D., Newport, E.L., & Turkeltaub, P.E. (2021) Impacts of healthy aging and left hemisphere stroke on statistical language learning. Language Cognition and Neuroscience
Li, D. & Schuler, K. (2021) Distributional Learning of Recursive Structures Proceedings of the Cognitive Science Society
Austin, A., Schuler, K.D., Furlong, S. & Newport, E.L. (2021) Learning a language from inconsistent input: Regularization in child and adult learners. Language Learning and Development
Schuler, K.D. (2021) Exbuilder: a framework for doing reproducible research with docker containers. Available at: https://github.com/exbuilder/exbuilder
Pophristic, S. & Schuler, K.D. (2021) The role of gender in the acquisition of the Serbian case system. Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America, 6(1), 896–905.
2020
Chen, Y. & Schuler, K.D. (2020) Does Learner’s preference match the typological pattern of Animacy Hierarchy in morphological marking? Penn Working Papers in Linguistics.
Schuler, K. D., Kodner, J., & Caplan, S. (2020). Abstractions are good for brains and machines: A commentary on Ambridge (2020). First Language
2019
Culbertson, J.C. & Schuler, K.D. (2019). Artificial language learning in children. Annual Review of Linguistics.
2017
Schuler, K.D., Reeder, P.A., Newport, E.L., & Aslin, R.N. (2017) The effect of Zipfian frequency variations on category formation in adult artificial language learning. Language Learning and Development.
2016
Schuler, K.D., Yang, C. & Newport, E.L. (2016). Testing the Tolerance Principle: Children form productive rules when it is more computationally efficient to do so. In Papafragou, A., Grodner, D., Mirman, D., & Trueswell, J.C. (Eds.) Proceedings of the 38th annual meeting of the cognitive science society.
Schwab, J.F., Schuler, K.D., Stillman, C.M., Newport, E.L. Howard, J.H., & Howard, D.V. (2016) Aging and the Statistical Learning of Grammatical Form Classes. Psychology and Aging, 2016, 31, 481-487.
2010
Booth, A.E., Schuler, K., & Zajicek, R. (2010). Specifying the role of function in infant categorization. Infant Behavior and Development, 33(4), 672-684.
Recent presentations
Li, D. & Schuler, K. (2022) Adapting infant looking time paradigms for the web. Talk to be presented at ICIS 2022.
Li, D. & Schuler, K. (2022) Adapting infant looking time paradigms for the web. Poster presented at HSP 2022.
Li, D. & Schuler, K. (2022) Acquiring recursive structures through distributional learning. Talk presented at the LSA 2022.
Chen. Y., Altenhof, A., Kendrick, A. & Schuler, K. (2022) Adults regularize unpredictable variation when variants resemble possible speech errors. Talk presented at the LSA 2022
Chen, Y. & Schuler, K. (2021) The Acquisition of Variable Ne-omission in Parisian French. Talk presented at the Arizona Linguistics Circle 15
Chen, Y. & Schuler, K. (2021) The role of shared variation on the acquisition of variable rules. Talk presented at the Boston University Conference on Language Development
Chen, Y. & Schuler, K. (2021) The role of shared variation on the acquisition of variable rules. Talk presented at New Ways of Analyzing Variation 49
Li, D. & Schuler, K. (2021) Acquiring recursive structures through distributional learning. Talk presented at Recursion Across Languages. The intricacies of Babel
Alberski, A. & Schuler, K. (2021) The role of language context in the acquisition of novel words. Poster presented at CUNY 2021
Li, D. & Schuler, K. (2021) Acquiring recursive structures through distributional learning. Talk presented at CUNY 2021
Alberski, A. & Schuler, K. (2021) Learning words in linguistic contexts: using language to fast-map and acquire partial knowledge. Poster presented at SRCD 2021
Kendrick, A. & Schuler, K. (2021) Adults do not regularize unpredictable language variation, even when learning from an unreliable speaker. Talk presented at the 95th annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America.
Nam, S. & Schuler, K. (2021) The influence of verb information on learning novel words. Poster presented at the 95th annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America
Pophristic, S.N. & Schuler, K. (2021) The role of gender in the acquisition of the serbian case system. Poster presented at the 95th annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America.
Schuler, K. & Chen, Y. (2021) Morphosyntactic variation is preserved, not regularized, when an optional form is rare. Talk presented at the 95th annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America.