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claire augusta bergey

@clairebergey.bsky.social

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discourse pragmatics & language development. linguistics postdoc. incoming asst prof of cognitive science at vassar clairebergey.net

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Robert Hawkins @rdhawkins.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

excited for the first #cogsci2026 poster session this afternoon! come by and chat with @ymacci.bsky.social @amirzur.bsky.social @clairebergey.bsky.social

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Martin Zettersten @mzettersten.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Really excited about this new preprint spearheaded by @vboyce.bsky.social w/ @mcxfrank.bsky.social and the Peekbank team. It's a deep-dive into a large looking-while-listening dataset (>3000 children!), evaluating what analytic and design choices really matter for measurement osf.io/preprints/ps...

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claire augusta bergey @clairebergey.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

now’s the time to say: i’ll be joining the faculty of cognitive science at vassar in the fall. pokipse bound!

train ticket to poughkeepsie, shortened pokipse

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claire augusta bergey @clairebergey.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

our work gathering many children’s eye movements to understand word learning trajectories, out now — !

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claire augusta bergey @clairebergey.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

how do people jointly traverse semantic space in conversation? in this cogsci paper, we consider conversation as a form of joint action in which people explore content with nested levels of specificity. conversations and topics start out the same and get idiosyncratic as they progress. osf.io/69yw2/

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Robert Hawkins @rdhawkins.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

exciting to see more language acquisition work shifting the lens to peer communication! @clairebergey.bsky.social is organizing a CogSci symposium highlighting related lines of work this summer!

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Mike Frank @mcxfrank.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Super excited to submit a big sabbatical project this year: "Continuous developmental changes in word recognition support language learning across early childhood": osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Time course of word recognition for kids at different ages.

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Robert Hawkins @rdhawkins.bsky.social · 12/09/2023

congrats to @clairebergey.bsky.social on the excellent work!! “Overall, people are able to use contrastive inferences from description to resolve reference and make inferences about a novel object’s category, letting them learn more about new things than literal meaning alone allows.”

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Using contrastive inferences to learn about new words and categories

In the face of unfamiliar language or objects, description is one cue people can use to learn about both. Beyond narrowing potential referents to thos…

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