Publications

Getz, H. & Newport, E. L. (under review). Biased statistical learning of closed-class items. (preprint)

Getz, H. & Lightfoot, D. (under review). How children discover and invent variable properties.

Getz, H. & Newport, E. L. (2019). Privileged computations for closed-class items in language acquisition. Proceedings of the 41^st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)

Getz, H. (2019). Acquiring wanna: Beyond Universal Grammar. Language Acquisition, 26(2), 119-143. (pdf)

Getz, H. (2018). Acquisition of morphosyntax: A pattern learning approach. In David W. Lightfoot & Jonathan Havenhill (Eds.), Variable properties in language: Their nature and acquisition (pp. 103-114). Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press.

Getz, H., Ding, N., Newport, E. L, & Poeppel, D. (2018). Cortical entrainment to constituent structure in language acquisition. Cognition, 181, 135–140. (pdf)

Meyer, A., Getz, H., Snider, S.. Sullivan, K., Long, S., Turner, R., & Friedman, R. (2016). Telerehabilitation of Anomia in Primary Progressive Aphasia. Aphasiology, 30(4), 483-507.

Getz, H., Snider, S., Brennan, D., & Friedman, R. (2016). Successful remote delivery of a treatment for phonological alexia via telerehab. Neuropsychological Rehabilitation, 26(4), 584-609.

Unpublished work

Kotfila, J.* & Getz, H. Mechanistic theories of language acquisition. *Student co-author

Getz, H. Acquisition of morphosyntax: A pattern-learning approach. (Interim draft)

Getz, H. (2018). Sentence first, arguments after: Mechanisms of morphosyntax acquisition. PhD dissertation. (link)

Getz, H. (2014). The developmental trajectory of combinatorial patterning in Nicaraguan Sign Language. Qualifying paper. (preprint)

Presentations

Getz, H. & Newport, E. L. Privileged computations for closed-class items. Poster presented at the 41^st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, July, 2019.

Getz, H. & Newport, E. L. Privileged computations for closed-class items. Poster presented at the 42^nd Boston University Conference on Language Development, November, 2018.

Getz, H. & Newport, E. L. Privileged computations for closed-class items. Talk presented at the 8th Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition – North America (GALANA-8) Conference, September, 2018.

Getz, H. & Newport, E. L. Mental computations underlying morphosyntax acquisition. Poster presented at the 39th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, July, 2017. London, England, UK. pdf

Getz, H. Acquisition of functional projections: A pattern learning approach. Talk presented at GURT: Variable properties: Their nature and acquisition. March, 2017.

Getz, H. Tracking forms within structures: How children learn the wanna facts. Poster presented at the 41st Boston University Conference on Language Development, November, 2016. pdf

Getz, H. Tracking forms within structures: How children learn the wanna facts. Talk presented at the 7th Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition – North America (GALANA-7) Conference, September, 2016.

Getz, H. The development of simultaneous-combinatorial structure in language creation and acquisition. Poster presented at the 40^th annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (November, 2015). pdf

Getz, H., Ding, N., Newport, E., & Poeppel, D. Cortical entrainment to constituent structure in language acquisition. Poster presented at the 7^th annual meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language (October, 2015). pdf

Getz, H; Newport, E. Children’s use of wanna: Structure-frequency interactions. Poster presented at the 2015 Linguistic Institute, Chicago, IL (July, 2015).

Friedman, R.; Meyer, A.; Getz, H.; Brennan, D.; and Hu, T. Telerehabilitation of anomia in primary progressive aphasia. Poster presented at the 2014 Mid-Year Meeting of the International Neuropsychological Society (July, 2014).

Getz, H.; Snider, S.; Brennan, D.; and Friedman, R. Successful remote delivery of a treatment for phonologic alexia via telerehab. Poster presented at the 51^st annual meeting of the Academy of Aphasia, Lucerne, Switzerland (October, 2013).

Meyer, A.; Getz, H.; Snider, S.; Sullivan, K.; Long, S.; Turner, R.; Friedman, R. Remediation and prophylaxis of anomia in primary progressive aphasia. Poster presented at the 51^st annual meeting of the Academy of Aphasia, Lucerne, Switzerland (October, 2013).

Getz, H.; Snider, S.; Ullrich, L.; Long, S.; Turkeltaub, P.; and Friedman, R. Reaction times as a measure of naming impairment on the Boston Naming Test. Poster presented at the 50^th annual meeting of the Academy of Aphasia, San Francisco, CA (October, 2012).