Publications

Tal, S., Smith, K., Arnon, I. & Culbertson, J. (2023). Communicative efficiency is present in young children and becomes more adult-like with age. Proceedings of the 45th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. 

Tal, S., Grossman, E., Rohde, H. & Arnon, I. (2023). Speakers use more redundant references with language learners: Evidence for communicatively-efficient referential choice. Journal of Memory and Language, 128, 104378.

Tal, S., Grossman, E. & Arnon, I. Infant-directed speech becomes less redundant as infants grow: implications for language learning. [preprint]

Tal, S., Smith, K., Culbertson, J., Grossman, E. & Arnon, I. (to appear). Grammaticalization of differential object marking: an experimental study. In E. Bar-Asher Siegal, N. Boneh, E. Grossman, and A. Rubinstein (eds.), Language change: theoretical and empirical perspectives. Jerusalem Studies in Philosophy and History of Science. Springer.

Tal, S., Arnon, I. & Culbertson, J. (to appear). Artificial language learning. In L. Raviv and C. Boeckx (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Approaches to Language Evolution.

Tal, S., Smith, K., Culbertson, J., Grossman, E. & Arnon, I. (2022). The impact of information structure on the emergence of differential object marking: an experimental study. Cognitive Science, 46(3), e13119.

Tal, S. & Arnon, I. (2022). Redundancy can benefit learning: Evidence from word order and case marking. Cognition, 224, 105055

Tal, S. & Arnon, I. (2020). Do children preferentially mark unpredictable material? The case of optional plural marking. Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

Tal, S. & Arnon, I. (2019). Redundant morphological marking facilitates children’s learning of a novel construction. Proceedings of the 41st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Cognitive Science Society, Montreal, July.

Tal, S. & Arnon, I. (2018). SES effects on the use of variation sets in child-directed speech. Journal of Child Language, 45(6), 1423-1438. Among ten most popular articles of 2019 in Journal of Child Language.

Tal, S. & Arnon, I. (2018). SES Differences in the communicative functions of variation sets. In A. B. Bertolini & M. J. Kaplan (Eds.), Proceedings of the 42nd annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (pp. 736–749). Cascadilla Press.