The acquisition of new meanings through novel word learning

Project Information

BraveNewWord

Grant agreement ID: 101087053

DOI 10.3030/101087053

EC signature date 17 March 2023

Start date 1 June 2023

End date 31 May 2028

Funded under

• European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost € 1 387 005,00

EU contribution € 1 387 005,00

Coordinated by

UNIVERSITA' DEGLI STUDI DI MILANO-BICOCCA
Italy

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Deliverables

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Data management plan

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Publications

Peer reviewed articles (10)

Cracking arbitrariness: A data-driven study of auditory iconicity in spoken English

Author(s): Andrea Gregor de Varda, Marco Marelli
Published in: Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 2025, ISSN 1069-9384
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.3758/S13423-024-02630-0

False memories from nowhere: Humans falsely recognize words that are not attested in their vocabulary

Author(s): Daniele Gatti, Marco Petilli, Michela Marchetti, Tomaso Vecchi, Giuliana Mazzoni, Luca Rinaldi, Marco Marelli
Published in: Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 2025, ISSN 1069-9384
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.3758/S13423-025-02677-7

Conceptual Combination in Large Language Models: Uncovering Implicit Relational Interpretations in Compound Words With Contextualized Word Embeddings

Author(s): Marco Ciapparelli, Calogero Zarbo, Marco Marelli
Published in: Cognitive Science, Issue 49, 2025, ISSN 0364-0213
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1111/COGS.70048

Is Ockham’s razor losing its edge? New perspectives on the principle of model parsimony

Author(s): Marina Dubova, Suyog Chandramouli, Gerd Gigerenzer, Peter Grünwald, William Holmes, Tania Lombrozo, Marco Marelli, Sebastian Musslick, Bruno Nicenboim, Lauren N. Ross, Richard Shiffrin, Martha White, Eric-Jan Wagenmakers, Paul-Christian Bürkner, Sabina J. Sloman
Published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Issue 122, 2025, ISSN 0027-8424
Publisher: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
DOI: 10.1073/PNAS.2401230121

Form to meaning mapping and the impact of explicit morpheme combination in novel word processing

Author(s): Rolando Bonandrini, Simona Amenta, Simone Sulpizio, Marco Tettamanti, Alessia Mazzucchelli, Marco Marelli
Published in: Cognitive Psychology, Issue 145, 2023, ISSN 0010-0285
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/J.COGPSYCH.2023.101594

On humans' (explicit) intuitions about the meaning of novel words

Author(s): Daniele Gatti, Francesca Rodio, Luca Rinaldi, Marco Marelli
Published in: Cognition, Issue 251, 2024, ISSN 0010-0277
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/J.COGNITION.2024.105882

Time is -ending: Sublexical information activates the horizontal mental time line in word processing.

Author(s): Martina Abbondanza, Simona Amenta, Luca Rinaldi, Marco Marelli
Published in: Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, Issue 51, 2025, ISSN 1939-1285
Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA)
DOI: 10.1037/XLM0001331

How should the advancement of large language models affect the practice of science?

Author(s): Marcel Binz, Stephan Alaniz, Adina Roskies, Balazs Aczel, Carl T. Bergstrom, Colin Allen, Daniel Schad, Dirk Wulff, Jevin D. West, Qiong Zhang, Richard M. Shiffrin, Samuel J. Gershman, Vencislav Popov, Emily M. Bender, Marco Marelli, Matthew M. Botvinick, Zeynep Akata, Eric Schulz
Published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Issue 122, 2025, ISSN 0027-8424
Publisher: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
DOI: 10.1073/PNAS.2401227121

Compositional processing in the recognition of Chinese compounds: Behavioural and computational studies

Author(s): Cheng-Yu Hsieh, Marco Marelli, Kathleen Rastle
Published in: Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 2025, ISSN 1069-9384
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.3758/S13423-025-02668-8

Meaning Beyond Lexicality: Capturing Pseudoword Definitions with Language Models

Author(s): Andrea Gregor de Varda, Daniele Gatti, Marco Marelli, Fritz Günther
Published in: Computational Linguistics, Issue 50, 2024, ISSN 0891-2017
Publisher: MIT Press
DOI: 10.1162/COLI_A_00527