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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Publications

Peer reviewed articles (12)

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

Compositionality in the semantic network: a model-driven representational similarity analysis

Author(s): Marco Ciapparelli; Marco Marelli; William Graves; Carlo Reverberi
Published in: Cerebral Cortex, 2025, ISSN 1460-2199
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/CERCOR/BHAF246

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

Measuring the Semantic Priming Effect Across Many Languages

Author(s): Erin M. Buchanan; Kelly Cuccolo; Tom Heyman; Niels van Berkel; Nicholas A. Coles; Aishwarya Iyer; Kim Peters; A. E. van ’t Veer; Maria Montefinese; Nicholas P. Maxwell; Jack E. Taylor; Kathrene D. Valentine; Patrícia Arriaga; Krystian Barzykowski; Leanne Boucher; W. Matthew Collins; David C. Vaidis; Balazs Aczel; Ali H. Al-Hoorie; Ettore Ambrosini; Théo Besson; Debora I. Burin; Muhammad Mussaffa Butt; A. J. Benjamin Clarke; Yalda Daryani; Dina Abdel Salam El-Dakhs; Mahmoud M. Elsherif; Maria Fernández-López; Paulo Roberto dos Santos Ferreira; Raquel Meister Ko Freitag; Carolina A. Gattei; Hendrik Godbersen; Philip A. Grim; Peter Halama; Patrik Havan; Natalia C. Irrazabal; Chris Isloi; Rebecca Kvisler Iversen; Yoann Julliard; Aslan Karaaslan; Michal Kohút; Veronika Kohútová; Julija Kos; Alexandra I. Kosachenko; Tiago Jessé Souza de Lima; Matthew H. C. Mak; Christina Manouilidou; Leonardo A. Marciaga; Xiaolin Melinna Melinna; Jacob Francisco Miranda; Coby Morvinski; Aishwarya Muppoor; F. Elif Müjdeci; Yngwie A. Nielsen; Juan Carlos Oliveros; Jaš Onič; Marietta Papadatou-Pastou; Ishani Patel; Zoran Pavlović; Blaž Pažon; Gerit Pfuhl; Ekaterina Pronizius; Timo B. Roettger; Camilo R. Ronderos; Susana Ruiz-Fernandez; Magdalena Senderecka; Çağlar Solak; Anna Stückler; Raluca D. Szekely-Copîndean; Analí R. Taboh; Rémi Thériault; Ulrich S. Tran; Fabio Trecca; José Luis Ulloa; Marton A. Varga; Steven Verheyen; Tijana Vesić Pavlović; Giada Viviani; Nan Wang; Kristyna Zivna; Chen Chu Yun; Oliver James Clark; Oguz A. Acar; Matúš Adamkovič; Giulia Agnoletti; Atakan M. Akil; Zainab Alsuhaibani; Simona Amenta; Olga A. Ananyeva; Michael Andreychik; Bernhard Angele; Danna Catalina Arias Quiñones; Nwadiogo Chisom Arinze; Adrian Dahl Askelund; Bradley J. Baker; Ernest Baskin; Luisa Batalha; Carlota Batres; Maria Soledad Beato; Manuel Becker; Maja Becker; Maciej Behnke; Christophe Blaison; Anna M. Borghi; Eduard Brandstätter; Jacek Buczny; Nesrin Budak; Álvaro Cabana; Zhenguang G. Cai; Enrique C. Canessa; Müge Cavdan; Luca Cecchetti; Sergio E. Chaigneau; Feria X. W. Chang; Christopher R. Chartier; Sau-Chin Chen; Elena Cherniaeva; Morten H. Christiansen; Hu Chuan-Peng; Patrycja Chwiłkowska; Montserrat Comesaña; Chin Wen Cong; Casey Cowan; Stéphane Daniel Dandeneau; Oana A. David; William E. Davis; Elif Gizem Demirag Burak; Barnaby James Wyld Dixson; Hongfei Du; Rod Duclos; Wouter Duyck; Liudmila A. Efimova; Ciara Egan; Vanessa Era; Thomas R. Evans; Anna Exner; Gilad Feldman; Katharina Fellnhofer; Chiara Fini; Sarah E. Fisher; Heather D. Flowe; Patricia Garrido-Vásquez; Daniele Gatti; Jason Geller; Vaitsa Giannouli; Anna Sergeevna Gorokhova; Lindsay M. Griener; Dmitry Grigoryev; Igor Grossmann; Hesam Ghasemi; Giacomo Handjaras; Cathy Hauspie; Zhiran He; Renata M. Heilman; Amirmahdi Heydari; Alanna M. Hine; Karlijn Hoyer; Weronika Hryniszak; Janet Hui-wen Hsiao; Guanxiong Huang; Keiko Ihaya; Ewa Ilczuk; Tatsunori Ishii; Andrei Dumbravă; Katarzyna Jankowiak; Xiaoming Jiang; David C. Johnson; Rafał Jończyk; Juhani Järvikivi; Laura Kaczer; Kevin Leander Kamermans; Johannes A. Karl; Alexander Karner; Pavol Kačmár; Jacob J. Keech; M. Justin Kim; Max Korbmacher; Kathrin Kostorz; Marta Kowal; Tomas Kratochvil; Yoshihiko Kunisato; Anna O. Kuzminska; Lívia Körtvélyessy; Fatma Ebru Köse; Massimo Köster; Magdalena Kękuś; Melanie Labusch; Claus Lamm; Chaak Ming Lau; Julieta Laurino; Wilbert Law; Giada Lettieri; Carmel A. Levitan; Jackson G. Lu; Sarah E. MacPherson; Klara Malinakova; Diego Manriquez-Robles; Nicolás Marchant; Marco Marelli; Martín Martínez
Published in: Nature Human Behaviour, 2025, ISSN 2397-3374
Publisher: Springer Nature
DOI: 10.1038/S41562-025-02254-X

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