Syntax shaped by cognition: transforming theories of syntactic systems through laboratory experiments

Project Information

SYNCOG

Grant agreement ID: 757643

DOI

10.3030/757643

Project closed

EC signature date 26 September 2017

Start date 1 February 2018

End date 30 September 2024

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 1 425 440,00

EU contribution

€ 1 425 440,00

Coordinated by

THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH
United Kingdom

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Publications

Peer reviewed articles (13)

The learning bias for cross-category harmony is sensitive to semantic similarity: Evidence from artificial language learning experiments

Author(s): Fang Wang, Simon Kirby, Jennifer Culbertson
Published in: Language, 2025, ISSN 1535-0665
Publisher: Linguistic Society of America

Gender comes first: Experimental evidence for the representation of gender closer to the noun stem than number across linguistic populations

Author(s): Carmen Saldana, Patrick Kanampiu, Jennifer Culbertson
Published in: Linguistic Inquiry, 2025, ISSN 0024-3892
Publisher: MIT Press

Autistic Traits, Communicative Efficiency, and Social Biases Shape Language Learning in Autistic and Allistic Learners

Author(s): Lauren Fletcher, Hugh Rabagliati, Jennifer Culbertson
Published in: Cognitive Science, Issue 48, 2024, ISSN 0364-0213
Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/cogs.70007

Revisiting the Suffixing Preference: Native-Language Affixation Patterns Influence Perception of Sequences

Author(s): Alexander Martin, Jennifer Culbertson
Published in: Psychological Science, Issue 31, 2024, Page(s) 1107-1116, ISSN 0956-7976
Publisher: SAGE Publications
DOI: 10.1177/0956797620931108

A Universal Cognitive Bias in Word Order: Evidence From Speakers Whose Language Goes Against It

Author(s): Alexander Martin, David Adger, Klaus Abels, Patrick Kanampiu, Jennifer Culbertson
Published in: Psychological Science, 2024, ISSN 0956-7976
Publisher: SAGE Publications

Predictability and Variation in Language Are Differentially Affected by Learning and Production

Author(s): Aislinn Keogh, Simon Kirby, Jennifer Culbertson
Published in: Cognitive Science, 2024, ISSN 0364-0213
Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Inc.

Language structure reflects biases in pattern learning across domains and modalities

Author(s): Jennifer Culbertson, Arianna Compostella, Simon Kirby
Published in: Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 2024, ISSN 1747-0218
Publisher: Psychology Press
DOI: 10.1177/17470218241282404

Children’s Sensitivity to Phonological and Semantic Cues During Noun Class Learning: Evidence for a Phonological Bias

Author(s): Jennifer Culbertson, Hanna Jarvinen, Frances Haggarty, Kenny Smith
Published in: Language, 2019, ISSN 1535-0665
Publisher: Linguistic Society of America
DOI: 10.1353/lan.0.0234

From the world to word order: Deriving biases in noun phrase order from statistical properties of the world

Author(s): Jennifer Culbertson, Marieke Schouwstra, Simon Kirby
Published in: Language, Issue 96/3, 2020, Page(s) 696-717, ISSN 1535-0665
Publisher: LSA
DOI: 10.1353/lan.2020.0045

Person of interest: Experimental investigations into the learnability of person systems

Author(s): Mora Maldonado, Jennifer Culbertson
Published in: Linguistic Inquiry, 2020, ISSN 0024-3892
Publisher: MIT Press

Evaluating the Relative Importance of Wordhood Cues Using Statistical Learning

Author(s): Elizabeth Pankratz, Simon Kirby, Jennifer Culbertson
Published in: Cognitive Science, Issue 48, 2024, ISSN 0364-0213
Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/cogs.13429

Nobody Doesn’t Like Negative Concord

Author(s): Mora Maldonado, Jennifer Culbertson
Published in: Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2021, ISSN 0090-6905
Publisher: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers

<em>You say yes, I say no</em>: Investigating the link between meaning and form in response particles

Author(s): Mora Maldonado, Jennifer Culbertson
Published in: Glossa: a journal of general linguistics, Issue 8, 2023, ISSN 2397-1835
Publisher: Open Library of Humanities
DOI: 10.16995/glossa.9185

Non-peer reviewed articles (1)

Order shaped by cognition. Evidence for (and against) the effect of domain-general biases on word and morpheme order

Author(s): Jennifer Culbertson
Published in: Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft, Issue 43, 2024, Page(s) 357-378, ISSN 0721-9067
Publisher: Mouton de DeGruyter
DOI: 10.1515/zfs-2024-2014

Conference proceedings (3)

Do crosslinguistic patterns of morpheme order reflect a cognitive bias?

Author(s): Carmen Saldana, Yohei Oseki, Jennifer Culbertson
Published in: Proceedings of the 41st Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2019
Publisher: Cognitive Science Society

Something about us: Learning first person pronoun systems

Author(s): Mora Maldonado, Jennifer Culbertson
Published in: Proceedings of the 41st Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2019
Publisher: Cognitive Science Society

Learning biases in person-number linearization

Author(s): Mora Maldonado, Carmen Saldana, Jennifer Culbertson
Published in: Proceedings of the North East Linguistic Society, 2020
Publisher: GLSA, University of Massachussetts, Amherst