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Interests

Language acquisition and processing, statistical learning, neural network models of language and statistical learning, neurophysiological (ERP) measures of statistical learning and language, language evolution, genetics of language.

Perception, Cognition & Development

Selected Publications

• Christiansen, M.H. & Chater, N. (in press). Language as shaped by the brain. Behavioral & Brain Sciences [target article for multiple peer commentary].
  
  
• Onnis, L. & Christiansen, M.H. (2008). Lexical categories at the edge of the word. Cognitive Science, 32, 184-221.
  
  
• Monaghan, P., Christiansen, M.H. & Chater, N. (2007). The Phonological-Distributional Coherence Hypothesis: Cross-linguistic evidence in language acquisition. Cognitive Psychology, 55, 259-305.
  
  
• Reali, F. & Christiansen, M.H. (2007). Processing of relative clauses is made easier by frequency of occurrence. Journal of Memory and Language, 57, 1-23.
  
  
• Conway, C.M. & Christiansen, M.H. (2006). Statistical learning within and between modalities: Pitting abstract against stimulus specific representations. Psychological Science, 17, 905-912.
  
  
• Farmer, T.A., Christiansen, M.H. & Monaghan, P. (2006). Phonological typicality influences on-line sentence comprehension. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 103, 12203-12208.
  
  
• Conway, C. & Christiansen, M.H. (2005). Modality constrained statistical learning of tactile, visual, and auditory sequences. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory & Cognition, 31, 24-39.
  
  
• Curtin, S., Mintz, T.H. & Christiansen, M.H. (2005). Stress changes the representational landscape: Evidence from word segmentation. Cognition, 96, 233-262.
  
  
• Monaghan, P., Chater, N. & Christiansen, M.H. (2005). The differential role of phonological and distributional cues in grammatical categorisation. Cognition, 96, 143-182.
  
  
• Reali, F. & Christiansen, M.H. (2005). Uncovering the richness of the stimulus: structure dependence and indirect statistical evidence. Cognitive Science, 29, 1007-1028.
  
  
• MacDonald, M.C. & Christiansen, M.H. (2002). Reassessing working memory: A comment on Just & Carpenter (1992) and Waters & Caplan (1996). Psychological Review, 109, 35-54.
  
  
• Christiansen, M.H. & Chater, N. (2001). Connectionist psycholinguistics: Capturing the empirical data. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 5, 82-88.
  
  
• Christiansen, M.H. & Chater, N. (1999). Toward a connectionist model of recursion in human linguistic performance. Cognitive Science, 23, 157-205.
  
  
• Christiansen, M.H., Allen, J. & Seidenberg, M.S. (1998). Learning to segment speech using multiple cues: A connectionist model. Language and Cognitive Processes, 13, 221-268.
  
  

Links

• Cognitive Science @ Cornell The Cognitive Science Program at Cornell University
  
  
• Language Evolution -- edited by M.H. Christiansen & S. Kirby The publisher's web page for my recent edited volume on language evolution
  
  
• Connectionist Psycholinguistics -- edited by M.H. Christiansen & N. Chater The publisher's web page for this edited volume on connectionist psycholinguistics.
  
  
• Psychology 215: Psychology of Language also Cognitive Science 215 and Linguistics 215.
  Spring 2008 information. Taught Spring semesters.
  
  
• Psychology 427/627: Evolution of Language also Cognitive Science 427.
  Fall 2007 information. Taught Fall semester in odd years.
  
  
• Psychology 428/628: Connectionist Psycholinguistics also Cognitive Science 428
  Fall 2004 information. Taught Fall semester in even years.
  
  

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