Publications

Ozaki, S., Yurovsky, D., & Levin, L. (2022). How well do LSTM language models learn filler-gap dependencies?. Proceedings of the Society for Computation in Linguistics.

Morris, B., C., & Yurovsky, D. (in revision). Communicative pressure on caregivers leads to language input that supports children's word learning.

Bergey, C., Marshall, Z., DeDeo, S., & Yurovsky, D. (in press). Learning communicative acts in children's conversations: a Hidden Topic Markov Model analysis of the CHILDES corpus. Topics in Cognitive Science.

Yurovsky, D., A, W., Kraus, A., M., Gengoux, G., W., Hardan, A., Y., & Frank, M., C. (under review). Developmental changes in the speed of social attention in early word learning.

Klafka, J., & Yurovsky, D. (2021). Characterizing the typical information curves of diverse languages. Entropy, 3, 1300.

Zettersten, M., Bergey, C., Bhatt, N., Boyce, V., Braginsky, M., Carstensen, A., deMayo, B., Kachergis, G., Lewis, M., Long, B., MacDonald, K., Mankewitz, J., Meylan, S., Saleh, A., N., Schneider, R., M., Mei, A., S., Uner, S., Xu, T., L., Yurovsky, D., & Frank, M., C. (2021). Peekbank: Exploring children's word recognition through an open, large-scale repository for developmental eye-tracking data. Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

Frank, M., C., Braginsky, M., Yurovsky, D., & Marchman, V., A. (2021). Variability and consistency in early language learning: The Wordbank project. MIT Press.

Leung, A., Tunkel, A., & Yurovsky, D. (2021). Parents fine-tune their speech to children's vocabulary knowledge. Psychological Science, 32, 975–984.

Bergey, C., & Yurovsky, D. (2021). Listeners use descriptive contrast to disambiguate novel referents and make inferences about novel categories. Experiments in Linguistic Meaning, 1, 39–46.

Bergey, C., Marshall, Z., DeDeo, S., & Yurovsky, D. (2021). Learning communicative acts in children's conversations: a Hidden Topic Markov Model analysis of the CHILDES corpus. Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Winner of the Computational Modeling Prize for Language.

Zhang, Y., Yurovsky, D., & Yu, C. (2021). Cross-situational Learning From Ambiguous Egocentric Input Is a Continuous Process: Evidence Using the Human Simulation Paradigm. Cognitive Science, 45, e13010.

Leung, A., Morris, B., C., & Yurovsky, D. (2021). Children know what words other children know. Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

Zhou, Y., & Yurovsky, D. (2021). A common framework for quantifying the learnability of nouns and verbs. Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

ManyBabies Consortium (2020). Quantifying sources of variability in infancy research using the infant-directed-speech preference. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science.

Leung, A., Hawkins, R., D., & Yurovsky, D. (2020). Parents scaffold the formation of conversational pacts with their children. Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

Bergey, C., Morris, B., & Yurovsky, D. (2020). Children hear more about what is atypical than what is typical. Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

Morris, B., C., & Yurovsky, D. (2019). Pressure to communicate across knowledge asymmetries leads to pedagogically supportive language input. Proceedings of the 41th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

Denby, J., & Yurovsky, D. (2019). Parents' linguistic alignment predicts children's language development. Proceedings of the 41th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

Leung, A., Tunkel, A., & Yurovsky, D. (2019). Parents calibrate speech to their children's vocabulary knowledge. Proceedings of the 41th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

Braginsky, M., Yurovsky, D., Marchman, V., A., & Frank, M., C. (2019). Consistency and variability in children's word learning across languages. Open Mind, 3, 52–67.

Sanchez, A., Meylan, S., C., Braginsky, M., MacDonald, K., Yurovsky, D., & Frank, M., C. (2019). childes-db: a flexible and reproducible interface to the Child Language Data Exchange System. Behavior Research Methods, 51, 1928–1941.

Yurovsky, D., Meyers, M., Burke, N., & Goldin-Meadow, S. (2018). Children gesture when speech is slow to come. Proceedings of the 40th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

Yurovsky, D. (2018). A communicative approach to early word learning. New Ideas in Psychology, 50, 73–79.

Frank, M., C., Braginsky, M., Yurovsky, D., & Marchman, V., A. (2017). Wordbank: An open repository for developmental vocabulary data. Journal of Child Language, 44, 677–694.

MacDonald, K., Yurovsky, D., & Frank, M., C. (2017). Social cues modulate the representations underlying cross-situational learning. Cognitive Psychology, 94, 67–84.

Yurovsky, D., Case, S., & Frank, M., C. (2017). Preschoolers flexibly adapt to linguistic input in a noisy channel. Psychological Science, 28, 1320–140.

Yurovsky, D., & Frank, M., C. (2017). Beyond naı̈ve cue combination: Salience and social cues in early word learning. Developmental Science, 20, e12349.

Frank, M., C., Sugarman, E., Horowitz, A., C., Lewis, M., L., & Yurovsky, D. (2016). Using tablets to collect data from young children. Journal of Cognition and Development, 17, 1–17.

Yurovsky, D., Doyle, G., & Frank, M., C. (2016). Linguistic input is tuned to children's developmental level. Proceedings of the 38th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.

Braginsky, M., Yurovsky, D., Marchman, V., A., & Frank, M., C. (2016). From uh-oh to tomorrow: Predicting age of acquisition for early words across languages. Proceedings of the 38th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

Benitez, V., L., Yurovsky, D., & Smith, L., B. (2016). Competition between multiple words for a referent in cross-situational word learning. Journal of Memory and Language, 90, 31–48.

Doyle, G., Yurovsky, D., & Frank, M., C. (2016). A robust framework for estimating linguistic alignment in Twitter conversations. Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on World Wide Web.

Zhang, Y., Yurovsky, D., & Yu, C. (2015). Statistical word learning is a continuous process: Evidence from the human simulation paradigm. Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.

Yurovsky, D., Wagner, K., Barner, D., & Frank, M., C. (2015). Signatures of domain-general categorization mechanisms in color word learning. Proceedings of the 37th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

MacDonald, K., Yurovsky, D., & Frank, M., C. (2015). Referential cues modulate attention and memory during cross-situational word learning. Proceedings of the 37th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

Schneider, R., M., Yurovsky, D., & Frank, M., C. (2015). Large-scale investigations of variability in children's first words. Proceedings of the 37th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

Braginsky, M., Yurovsky, D., Marchman, V., A., & Frank, M., C. (2015). Developmental Changes in the Relationship Between Grammar and the Lexicon. Proceedings of the 37th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

Yurovsky, D., & Frank, M., C. (2015). An Integrative Account of Constraints on Cross-Situational Learning. Cognition, 145, 53–62.

Yurovsky, D., Fricker, D., C., Yu, C., & Smith, L., B. (2014). The role of partial knowledge in statistical word learning. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review.

Yurovsky, D., Fricker, D., C., Yu, C., & Smith, L., B. (2014). The role of partial knowledge in statistical word learning. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 21, 1–22.

Yurovsky, D., & Frank, M., C. (2014). Beyond naı̈ve cue combination: Salience and social cues in early word learning. Proceedings of the 36th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

Yurovsky, D., Smith, L., B., & Yu, C. (2013). Statistical word learning at scale: The baby's view is better. Developmental Science, 16, 959–966.

Yurovsky, D., Boyer, T., W., Smith, L., B., & Yu, C. (2013). Probabilistic cue combination: Less is more. Developmental Science, 16, 149–158.

Yurovsky, D., Wade, A., & Frank, M., C. (2013). Online processing of speech and social Information in early word learning. Proceedings of the 35th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

Frank, M., C., Simmons, K., Yurovsky, D., & Pusiol, G. (2013). Developmental and postural changes in children's visual access to faces. Proceedings of the 35th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

Yurovsky, D., Yu, C., & Smith, L., B. (2013). Competitive processes in cross-situational word learning. Cognitive Science, 37, 891–921.

Yurovsky, D., Yu, C., & Smith, L., B. (2012). Statistical speech segmentation and word learning in parallel: Scaffolding from child-directed speech. Frontiers in Psychology, 3, 374.

Yurovsky, D., Hidaka, S., & Wu, R. (2012). Quantitative linking hypotheses for infant eye movements. Proceedings of the 34th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

Yurovsky, D., Hidaka, S., & Wu, R. (2012). Quantitative linking hypotheses for infant eye movements. PloS ONE, 7, e47419.

Yurovsky, D., H, R., A., Smith, L., B., & Fernald, A. (2012). Mutual exclusivity and vocabulary structure. Proceedings of the 34th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

Yurovsky, D., Smith, L., B., & Yu, C. (2012). Does statistical word learning scale? It's a matter of perspective. Proceedings of the 34th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

Yu, C., Yurovsky, D., & Xu, T., L. (2011). Visual data mining: An exploratory approach to analyzing temporal patterns of eye movements. Infancy, 17, 33–60.

Yurovsky, D., Wu, R., Yu, C., Kirkham, N., Z., & Smith, L., B. (2011). Model selection for eye movements: Assessing the role of attentional cues in infant learning. Connectionist models of neurocognition and emergent behavior: From theory to applications.

Yurovsky, D., Fricker, D., C., Yu, C., & Smith, L., B. (2010). The active role of partial knowledge in cross-situational word learning. Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

Yurovsky, D., Yu, C., & Smith, L., B. (2010). Statistical speech segmentation and word learning in parallel. Proceedings of the 34th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development.

Yurovsky, D., & Yu, C. (2010). Linking learning to looking: Habituation and association in infant statistical language learning.. Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

Yurovsky, D., & Yu, C. (2008). Mutual exclusivity in cross-situational statistical learning. Proceedings of the 30th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.