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Publications

Journal articles and conference proceedings

  • Trecca, F., Tylén, K., Højen, A., & Christiansen, M.H. (under review). The puzzle of Danish: Implications for language learning and use.

  • Trecca, F., Bleses, D., Højen, A., Madsen, T.O. & Christiansen, M.H. (2020). When too many vowels impede language processing. An eye-tracking study of Danish-learning children. Language and Speech. https://doi.org/10.1177/0023830919893390 [E-pub ahead of print]

  • Trecca, F. & Christiansen, M.H. (2019). Dansk er svært! [Danish is hard!] Op-Ed in Forum Mentum, November.

  • Frost, R., Armstrong, B. & Christiansen, M.H. (2019). Statistical learning research: A critical review and possible directions. Psychological Bulletin, 145, 1128-1153. https://doi.org/10.1037/bul0000210

  • Dideriksen, C., Fusaroli, R., Tylén, K., Dingemanse, M., & Christiansen, M. H. (2019). Contextualizing Conversational Strategies: Backchannel, Repair and Linguistic Alignment in Spontaneous and Task-Oriented Conversations. In A. Goel, C. Seifert & C. Freksa (Eds.), Proceedings of the 41st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 261–267. Presented at the 41st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Montreal, Quebec. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.

  • Ishkhanyan, B., Højen, A., Fusaroli, R., Johansson, C., Tylén, K., & Christiansen, M. H. (2019). Wait for it! Stronger influence of context on categorical perception in Danish than Norwegian. In A. Goel, C. Seifert & C. Freksa (Eds.), Proceedings of the 41st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 1949–1955. Presented at the 41st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Montreal, Quebec. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.

  • Trecca, F., Tylén, K., Fusaroli, R., Johansson, C., & Christiansen, M. H. (2019). Top- down information is more important in noisy situations: Exploring the role of pragmatic, semantic, and syntactic information in language processing. In A. Goel, C. Seifert & C. Freksa (Eds.), Proceedings of the 41st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 2988-2994. Presented at the 41st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Montreal, Quebec. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/xp736

  • Trecca, F., McCauley, S.M., Andersen, S.R., Bleses, D., Basbøll, H., Højen, A., Madsen, T.O., Ribu, I.S B., & Christiansen, M. H. (2019). Segmentation of highly vocalic speech via statistical learning: Insights from a cross-linguistic study of Danish, Norwegian, and English. Language Learning, 69, 143–176. https://doi.org/10.1111/lang.12325

  • Trecca, F., Bleses, D., Madsen, T.O. & Christiansen, M.H. (2018). Does sound structure affect word learning? An eye-tracking study of Danish learning toddlers. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 167, 180-203. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2017.10.011

Presentations

  • M.H. Christiansen (2020, June). Language Acquisition as Skill Learning. Invited colloquium to be delivered in the Department of Psychology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

  • B. Ishkhanyan, R. Fusaroli, A. Højen, C. Johansson, D. Bleses, K. Tylén & M.H. Christiansen (2020, February). The Effect of Contextual Bias on Categorical Perception: A Danish and Norwegian Crosslinguistic Study. Paper presented at Phonology in the Nordic Countries 2020 (FiNo2020), Oslo University, Norway.

  • B. Ishkhanyan, F. Trecca, A. Højen, D. Bleses, C. Johansson, K. Tylén & M.H. Christiansen (2020, February). Cross-Linguistic Differences in Processing Unclear stimuli: a Danish and Norwegian Study. Poster presented at Phonology in the Nordic Countries 2020 (FiNo2020), Oslo University, Norway.

  • C. Dideriksen, R. Fusaroli, K. Tylén, M. Dingemanse & M.H. Christiansen (2019, July). Contextualizing Conversational Strategies: Backchannel, Repair and Linguistic Alignment in Spontaneous and Task- Oriented Conversations. Talk presented at the 41st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Montreal, Quebec.

  • B. Ishkhanyan, A. Højen, R. Fusaroli, C. Johansson, K. Tylén & M.H. Christiansen (2019, July). Wait for it! Stronger Influence of Context on Categorical Perception in Danish than Norwegian. Poster presented at the 41st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Montreal, Quebec.

  • F. Trecca, K. Tylén, R. Fusaroli, C. Johansson & M.H. Christiansen (2019, July). Top-down Information Is More Important in Noisy Situations: Exploring the Role of Pragmatic, Semantic, and Syntactic Information in Language Processing. Poster presented at the 41st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Montreal, Quebec.

  • F. Trecca, F. F. Frinsel, & M. H. Christiansen (2019, June). The Picture Guessing Game: Robust active statistical learning of syntactic regularities. Poster presented at the Interdisciplinary Advances in Statistical Learning 2019 conference, Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain.
  • M.H. Christiansen (2019, May). Plenary speaker at the 7th Conference of the Scandinavian Association for Language and Cognition, Aarhus University, Denmark.

  • C. Dideriksen, R. Fusaroli, C. Johansson, K. Tylén & M.H. Christiansen (2019, May). Kill or Tap? Left or Right? Preliminary Results from a Study on Dialogue Differences in Task Oriented and Spontaneous conversations. Talk presented at the 7th Conference of the Scandinavian Association for Language and Cognition, Aarhus University, Denmark.

  • B. Ishkhanyan, F. Trecca, A. Højen, D. Bleses, C. Johansson, K. Tylén & M.H. Christiansen (2019, May). Has She Sent or Lit an Email? Preliminary Results of a Danish and Norwegian Categorical Perception Study. Talk presented at the 7th Conference of the Scandinavian Association for Language and Cognition, Aarhus University, Denmark.

  • F. Trecca, K. Tylén, R. Fusaroli, C. Johansson & M.H. Christiansen (2019, May). “Gik guldfisken ind i butikken?”: Cross-Scandinavian Differences in Reliance on Top-Down Information in Spoken Language Processing. Talk presented at the 7th Conference of the Scandinavian Association for Language and Cognition, Aarhus University, Denmark.

  • M.H. Christiansen (2019, March). Keynote speaker at the inaugural workshop on “The evolution of language: bridging between the natural and cognitive sciences” at the Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Language Evolution, University of Zurich, Switzerland.

  • M.H. Christiansen (2018, September).  The 41st Annual Distinguished Scholar Lecture Series, Department of Psychology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada.

  • M.H. Christiansen (2018, July). Keynote speaker at the 4th LuCiD Language and Communicative Development Conference, Liverpool University, UK.

  • M.H. Christiansen (2018, May). Bearbejdelsen af Talesignalet Er Grundlæggende for Sprogudviklingen [Speech processing is fundamental for language development]. Invited talk presented at a conference on everyday language pedagogic, Aarhus, Denmark.

  • L.B. Kristensen, F. Trecca, K. Tylén, R. Fusaroli, D. Bleses, A. Højen, C.R. Dideriksen & M.H. Christiansen (2018, February). Effects of Phonetic Reduction on Rapid Automatized Naming. Poster presented at Phonology in the Nordic Countries 2018 (FiNo2018), Lund University, Sweden.

  • F. Trecca, L.B. Kristensen, K. Tylén, R. Fusaroli, D. Bleses, A. Højen, C.R. Dideriksen & M.H. Christiansen (2018, February). Using Non-Word Repetition to Investigate the Nature of Phonological Representations in Adult Speakers of Danish and Norwegian. Poster presented at Phonology in the Nordic Countries 2018 (FiNo2018), Lund University, Sweden.

  • M.H. Christiansen (2017, October). Inaugural Lecture as Professor in Cognitive Science of Language at the School of Communication and Culture and the Interacting Minds Centre, Aarhus University, Denmark.